Agriculture committee  By all means. I've been at this battle with CFIA for over six years. Mr. O'Shaughnessy has entered the scene more recently. Mr. O'Shaughnessy's predecessor, Claude Trottier, was involved in the battle alongside me and members from King Cole Ducks in Ontario. We saw a marked change several months ago when the president did become involved, and we've appreciated that change, but it took years of battle to get to that point, and it should never take that long.

Agriculture committee  I can start with that. Yes, clearly there needs to be reciprocity, both in terms of standards of processing and also in terms of labelling. We saw a number of deficiencies in the labelling coming into the country. In fact, we saw a lot of product that was labelled for institutional or food service use, but it was being sold into retail, so it was not labelled appropriately for the retail market.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, honourable chairperson and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Ken Falk. I'm a third-generation farmer in Canada. Two more generations are already active on our family farm. Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry produces ducks, geese and specialty chickens in Chilliwack, British Columbia.