Francis Drouin at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On June 1st, 2017. See this statement in context.

June 1st, 2017 / 12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

I want to thank the witnesses for being here. There are three witnesses but two organizations.

To the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, I think part of your previous testimony is the reason that we're doing this today, if my memory serves me correctly. I could be wrong, but you had mentioned that the market access secretariat had a list of 300 priorities, which to me and probably to all of us, meant they had no priorities. That's part of the reason we're here today.

I'd like to talk about the market access secretariat and your dealings with them. I've heard some great stories, but, Mr. Rice, in the last few seconds of your testimony, you said “adequate funding”. Is that something you'd see for the MAS to address some of those problems?

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