Mr. Brian Read at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On November 3rd, 2009. See this statement in context.

November 3rd, 2009 / 4:05 p.m.

Vice-President, Non-Fed Sales and Government Relations for XL Foods Inc., Canadian Meat Council

I'd love to throw this one back to the responsibility of the government, but the industry did supply the numbers, along with government. As I alluded to in my opening statements, they were underestimated because we didn't have the true outlying cost beyond the walls. I'll leave it there.

To answer the rest of your question, my issue is that we can't be competitive with the rest of the world with product that is over 30 months.

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