Agriculture committee  All losses related to these trade agreements have been documented. CUSMA will come into effect a little too soon, in July. We were hoping that the agreement would come into effect in August, because the dairy year starts in August. As my colleagues said, we also have export limit

Agriculture committee  No one knows what's going to happen. It's hard to predict anything. I drew an analogy with a tap earlier. If hotels, restaurants and institutions—in other words, the HRI sector—resume operations, if consumers fall back into their old habits and if local buying remains strong, th

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Lehoux, for your question. COVID-19 is indeed a spontaneous event, and we don't know how long it's going to last. We leveraged supply management tools and we will continue to do so. We've lowered milk production, and the Canadian Dairy Commission is go

Agriculture committee  The government promised $1.75 billion. The portion for the first year was paid out, so payments for the subsequent years are outstanding. I don't know the exact figure off the top of my head, but it's a sizable amount, and farmers need it to cope with the market concessions.

Agriculture committee  All we were told is that the payments would be made. We'd like more information as well as a formal commitment.

Agriculture committee  We were told that it would be done, but we would really appreciate a more formal commitment. Everyone agrees that farmers should be compensated for the losses they will incur year after year. The government has made promises to our counterparts in all the supply-managed sectors,

Agriculture committee  Good evening. I’m Pierre Lampron, president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada. I’m here today with David Wiens, vice-president of the board and also chair of Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, as well as with Bobby Matheson, our vice-president, advocacy. On behalf of all Canadian dairy f

International Trade committee  In fact, on my farm, my brothers and I felt that it didn't fit the model that we had before with supply management, the Canadian market and investing in promotion to grow the Canadian market, and so on. As far as transparency is concerned, I'm going to give the floor to Mr. Lefe

International Trade committee  Once again, thank you for raising this issue. The position of our transformer colleagues is simple: it is the same as ours. If all the tariff quotas are to go to the processors to prevent the destruction of the market, they are the ones on the market. There's a lot at stake. Fo

International Trade committee  I believe 100% is to be allocated to the processors, people who are affected and who are in the marketplace. Our position is that these quotas really must go entirely to the processors.

International Trade committee  Of course we have no objection if people feel affected by such a situation. At the moment, we do not have a firm position on this.

International Trade committee  If people are being affected, we can't object.

International Trade committee  As you know, American production is 15% higher than demand, and their objective is to sell their products on the foreign market. On our side, with supply management, our production is limited to the Canadian market. In the CUSMA, we are responding to the Americans' strategy. They

International Trade committee  It was a way for dairy producers and processors to negotiate with the government to find a solution to the problems of product classification. Mr. Lefebvre, is there anything you'd like to add on this subject?

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for your question. The price of milk, if we take the same standards, that is, milk without somatotropin, is equivalent in Canada and the United States. In fact, over the past five or six years, the price of dairy products has increased by 2%, while the price