Evidence of meeting #11 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Executive Director, Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture
I guess our experience is a bit different because we have a provincial farm loan board.
Some of the things that are happening are similar. It's really tough to ask a lender to write down debt. Their mandate is to realize their loan and to sell assets to do that. We've certainly seen some of that with respect to the farm loan board and with other lenders.
Liberal
Conservative
David Tilson Conservative Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Mr. Chairman, we have gone beyond the time. We don't even have a quorum, in fact.
Unless it's very brief, I think we should adjourn.
Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
It's very brief.
I'm correcting the record. I understand when Mr. Lemieux spoke, when I was out, he said I was opposed to exports. I just want it on the record that I'm not. I'm strongly in favour of exports in the beef industry.
Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal Mark Eyking
Thank you, Mr. Easter.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming, and to the crew in Nova Scotia for being patient in all the input you gave today. This will be very important for our report.
The next meeting is next Tuesday. We'll be dealing with grain issues.
Thank you very much. The meeting is adjourned.
