Agriculture committee  Thank you. I agree, Canada is a leader internationally in science and technology, and in agriculture and innovation. I studied at the University of Guelph in the early eighties. I've seen a lot of farmers embrace a lot of technologies, but as I said, technology has often not em

Agriculture committee  I have a 23-year-old daughter. She turned 23 this November. She is graduating from university in December. She used to want to be a doctor and got accepted into a science program, but now she is telling me that she's going to farm. It was a little distressing for me, honestly, as

Agriculture committee  That's right. We've always criticized concentration in the marketplace and these intensive livestock operations that have really cheap imported labour. A lot of them aren't even owned by Canadian companies; they're owned by Tyson or Cargill. They're just finishing hogs here in Ca

Agriculture committee  We need more family farms.

Agriculture committee  We need to continue to strengthen the programs we have in Canada, like orderly marketing, single-desk selling, and supply management. We can even carry those on to the hog and cattle sectors. Those things have guaranteed and they've also controlled production. There's nothing wro

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. It's well past. But we need to make sure that money gets to the right farmers and to cow-calf operators and not just the big feedlots. It has to get to the cow-calf operators.

Agriculture committee  Can't I even finish answering his question?

Agriculture committee  Brian, I can answer your question. Thank you, Mr. Roy. We're asking for an inquiry because we need to know. If somebody is sick, you need to find out what's wrong with them, instead of just giving them medicine. This is a drastic drop in my stock prices, below BSE. We need to

Agriculture committee  No. Why would you ask that question?

Agriculture committee  We're a very open organization. Any member of Parliament, any party, can come to us and ask us for our expertise or advice.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely, and the National Farmers Union has been very active for long before my time. Nettie Wiebe and Terry Boehm and other very significant farmers and leaders in the Prairies have been very involved with the Canadian Transportation Act and working for rail lines. It's not m

Agriculture committee  I am familiar with it, but it's not my area of expertise.

Agriculture committee  I don't know. The NFU is not.... I'm not on that committee for the NFU. I live in Ontario, and it's really what we call the grains and trains of the Prairies, so I'd really leave that to my colleagues in the National Farmers Union who farm in Alberta and Saskatchewan and are more

Agriculture committee  I farm one hour south of here.

Agriculture committee  I have grown wheat on my farm and tried to sell it privately and have always gone to the Ontario Wheat Board to sell my grain. Selling your grain privately is a harder task than you think. It's very difficult, as an individual farmer, to negotiate like that. And the advantages