Evidence of meeting #14 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was lamb.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:25 p.m.
NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
Okay.
I don't have much time. Can you talk a bit about the impacts of COVID on your operations and what that's going to look like going forward?
5:25 p.m.
Chair, Pork Nova Scotia
I'm going to talk about two things.
Number one, for our farm, because we direct market, we have not been impacted like life has for people who are isowean producers. For the isowean producers who were shipping into Quebec, those farms got backed up because they couldn't go into processors. We were looking at having to eradicate piglets, and our governments and everyone kind of worked together.
What happened was that the price for those isowean producers dropped from their contract price of $40 to a cash price of $5 to $7 a piglet. They really suffered. It looked like that was going to actually put them under.
5:30 p.m.
NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
Wow. Okay.
I think I'll leave it there. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
Kody Blois Liberal Kings—Hants, NS
Mr. Chair, I have a point of order.
Just for the benefit of everyone on this committee, Mr. Drouin was talking to Ms. Lamb about her products, and she mentioned ham. She's famous in Nova Scotia for her Margie Lamb ham, so I think that after the pandemic you should all come down to Nova Scotia, and we can have some Margie Lamb ham.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
That's a great point of order. Everybody order your Jimmie Lamb ham. Let's get this right.
Thanks to our panel. It was a wonderful discussion. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here.
For all our colleagues, our MPs and our support staff, it was almost a perfect meeting. I appreciate everything you've done.
5:30 p.m.
Bloc
Yves Perron Bloc Berthier—Maskinongé, QC
Mr. Chair, I would like to make a quick point.
By the way, I recommend the chicken from Benny & Co., because I live in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, where the original restaurant opened.
I wanted to congratulate the interpreters, it was impeccable. I did not mention it during the meeting so as not to waste time, but sometimes I had an echo. I don't know if I was the only one who heard it, but I just wanted to point it out to the technical team, who may not have been aware of it. We were still able to hear clearly.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Duly noted, Mr. Perron. The technical team will surely look into it.
Until next week, then. Have a good weekend.
Thanks to all of you. We'll see all of you next week.
This meeting is adjourned.