Agriculture committee  What would happen to the Ontario Wheat Board? Do you know what's happened? The Ontario Wheat Board has approached the Canadian Wheat Board to sell grain for them when they couldn't market it. So if there was an advantage for Ontario to come under the Canadian Wheat Board, yes,

Agriculture committee  Well, we went to hear Andrew Nikiforuk, and when you hear about what's going on, that's a reality. More and more farmers need to know about this, and consumers need to know about what has actually happened in the countryside. There is a movement by local people wanting the gree

Agriculture committee  I've already mentioned it once before, if you don't mind my being the person to address this. Our trade agreements have stymied us. They've kept us in a constant state of poverty. And what do we hear? We need more market access. I was in Hong Kong. I was at the WTO ministerial m

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's something the NFU's been recommending for many years--that we have a guaranteed floor price that guarantees us our cost of production, and then some. That's the beauty of supply management; it guarantees your cost of production, plus a living wage. I know up and down

Agriculture committee  Talking about these programs has never been my forte. I've never personally benefited from them, really, because my farm is so diverse. Also, because we continually talk about them, and because we increasingly and regularly talk about the constraints we have because of our agreem

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I would just like to address the issue about the price of beef and pork. Hamburger in the grocery store today is as expensive as it's ever been. We saw that happen during the BSE crisis and we see it today. It's worse than ever; the gap is ever widening. The NFU is ca

Agriculture committee  I believe I'm going to go first, and then Kalissa and then Bob. Thank you very much for this opportunity to come before you today, ladies and gentlemen. We didn't find out until Monday night when we were driving down Highway 401 on the way home from our 38th annual convention of

Agriculture committee  The process is flawed. The CFIA model is not one that we want to emulate. The CFIA model, which they used quite often throughout their different departments, which is online consultation, is really impossible for farmers to access. For one thing, farmers don't go to the CFIA web

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Colleen Ross, and I'm the women's president of the National Farmers Union. I'm also a grain and oilseeds farmer in the Seaway Valley, about an hour south of here. I'd like to introduce you to the National Farmers