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Agriculture committee No, but that was about the only time.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee I guess I'm probably the only one who isn't on a per diem here today, so--
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Overall in my presentation I really didn't get to say what my summary was.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee I want to make one final comment, if I may.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Excuse me, I certainly was interrupted a lot more than other people, and I was distracted from what I was--
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Would you welcome the studies and presentations that I made to the committee?
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Yes, I just want to clarify. Mr. Friesen said the NFU and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture agreed that if we have Cargill and somebody else competing for our product.... We in the National Farmers Union don't see it as particularly positive that an American transnational comes up and sets up operations in this country.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Excuse me, I--
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Okay. I just want to finish then--
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee I do, because I'm having difficulty figuring out what I said that is in dispute here. In Manitoba, there's a 30¢-per-litre subsidy on ethanol; it's commonly known. On an energy equivalent basis, that works out to about a 45¢-per-litre subsidy. I didn't make any comments about biodiesel in terms of a subsidy level.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Biofuels are highly dependent on the fossil fuels, and you cannot call something that dependent on fossil fuels alternate energy. The studies I cited.... There's almost a new one a week stating the problems with ethanol. Paul Crutzen of the OECD did a study. He's a Nobel prize-winning scientist, and he determined there was more CO2 from biodiesel in Europe than from the straight use of fuel.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee On the subsidy part of it, the Manitoba government provides a 20¢-per-litre subsidy and the federal government 10¢, so that's 30¢. That is how my analysis comes to $1 million per job per year. If we're going to spend that money, there are a lot better places to spend it in terms of providing jobs.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Ethanol and biofuels are--
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee No, she asked me the question. I'm sorry.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson
Agriculture committee Yes, we've got...[Inaudible--Editor]
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Kenneth Sigurdson