Agriculture committee  We're not working on it ourselves, but we're aware of that program. We see it as a valuable program to be able to improve that kind of technology. I haven't toured the MacDon plant, but I did tour the Honey Bee plant in southwestern Saskatchewan where they're manufacturing header

Agriculture committee  SaskTel, of course, has a monopoly in Saskatchewan. There are some other service providers, mostly by satellite. To my knowledge, SaskTel doesn't have a lot of partnerships. They are announcing this on their own. They are using some of the federal funding to be able to do that, b

Agriculture committee  We certainly looked at that example, and I have met many of those wardens and listened to them describe what they have done in creating good solid partnerships. I think Alberta also has some good examples of what they're doing, especially in southern Alberta, according to people

Agriculture committee  My organization is not working directly with them, but I know that there are some rural municipalities and some urban municipalities that are working with them. They see it as a good program.

Agriculture committee  Obviously the climate is an attraction to companies like that, and of course they'd be a base, because a lot of their sales would be in western Canada, so that would make sense. I'd like to make one comment about some of the smaller businesses that are looking to set up in rural

Agriculture committee  Of course. In 30 seconds, getting into agriculture is a very expensive proposition, but many of the younger farmers now may be farming with their parents, using that as a succession plan. I think younger farmers are very savvy about new technology. I just want to make mention o

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  I'm not an expert on it. I'm of the generation that is not as savvy about the new technology, but I know if I spoke to my son about this, he could certainly fill you in.

Agriculture committee  I don't now about this.

Agriculture committee  I'd just like to say that I agree with the gentleman's comments as well. Of course agriculture—and I think we all realize this—is a huge contributor to the GDP, more so in provinces like Saskatchewan, because we have almost half of the arable land of the entire country in our pro

Agriculture committee  Really, it will take more federal funding. The federal government has gone through the connecting Canadians program, and that has almost run out. We'll be asking the federal government to look at some kind of a new program. We need a couple of things. We need to improve the back

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Good morning. I'd like to thank the standing committee for the opportunity this morning to discuss technology in agriculture that can support Canadian exports—in our case, Saskatchewan exports. My name is Ray Orb. I am the president of the Saskatchewan Association o

Fisheries committee  We see that as an economic impediment to what our province needs to do. Actually, SARM and CAPP have signed a memorandum of understanding so that we can work closer together with our rural municipalities, because many of our rural municipalities have pipelines that go through the

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I think it's a good first step. As I mentioned, we did meet with Minister LeBlanc in Regina. He did mention to us that the government was looking at a low, medium, and high risk categorization. We simply need some better definitions. Perhaps it requires more consultation, but we