Agriculture committee  That's right, in that province.

Agriculture committee  Currently the requirement is a ministerial exemption to ship a larger size if the product is not available in that province.

Agriculture committee  Sure.

Agriculture committee  They exist for regulated areas, for potatoes; they also exist for apples, as we talked about for B.C. My colleague from the west noted the need for sound outcome-based science and risk-based analysis. We have to ensure that we're doing that at a provincial level and are not impac

Agriculture committee  This does come back to interprovincial and federal jurisdiction, because we need to find a solution for Canadians. Beyond the U.S.-Canada relationship, this is a concern for Canadians selling to Canadians and selling between provinces. This is why the provinces have a key role in

Agriculture committee  That's a very good question. No one has approached the produce industry for a checkoff program at this point. The produce industry isn't structured for a levy system domestically in Canada. It's fragmented. It would be very—

Agriculture committee  In our investigation, we spent years looking at the various tools and models. At this point, for all the tools we looked at—bonding, pooling, checkoff programs, creating agencies—we determined that they were high-cost tools with a high administrative burden. On the reality of hav

Agriculture committee  It's a very difficult question to answer relative to losses. As you know, the perishability of fresh produce can cause quite a few different issues, especially in transportation if the cold chain is not managed. Ensuring that the grower and the shipper are managing that cold ch

Agriculture committee  Exactly.

Agriculture committee  There are some potato shippers that are asking if they can change the size and volume of packed potatoes that are shipped so they can ship larger volumes across interprovincial boundaries and repack in another province to ensure that they can remove any product that may have been

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Honourable members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, on behalf of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak today on the topic of promoting domestic trade of agricultural and agr

Agriculture committee  There has been discussion amongst various groups. I know the Ontario apple marketers, in approximately 1999-2000, were trying to determine and understand the actual market price so that as a group they weren't going into the market below price amongst each other. The management

Agriculture committee  Specific to a combination of agricultural policy that links health and agriculture, at this point there has been work to try to bring together Health Canada and Agriculture to try to frame discussion around how we develop policy that can support industry. The single-nutrient data

Agriculture committee  Thank you. On innovation, when you start looking at fresh produce specifically, the margins are so very tight. Input costs, as we heard, and other variables that impact what a producer can sell on a competitive level, force the industry to really look towards innovation to be c

Agriculture committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair. In closing, we need the development of new markets and improved existing markets, domestically and internationally, for fresh fruits and vegetables. Canadian regulation, policy, and programs need to support research and innovation, adopt a food systems approach