Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Minister, congratulations on 30 years of serving your constituents in P.E.I. I was just looking across the aisle. I think you've been around longer than all of them put together.

Agriculture committee  Maybe on this side, even.... We have great friends in P.E.I., and you're very much respected. Thank you for your service. I also understand you're going to keep going.

Agriculture committee  There you go. The Prime Minister referred to the U.S.-Canada-Mexico agreement yesterday as the “new NAFTA”, so I'm not sure now where we're going with that. Did you have input into accepting the accelerator clause in terms of the import of milk into Canada?

Agriculture committee  We know that, Minister. I'm just trying to figure out where you're sitting in terms of these negotiations, because an accelerator clause.... First, we've now allowed fluid milk to come into Canada. There is now an escalator clause in the amounts that can come in. Second, can y

Agriculture committee  That's one of the things right now, the capacity to hold the crop. I'm from Ontario and I farm. We have a huge challenge in Ontario this year with our corn and vomitoxin. I'm sorry about the time left for my colleague here, but the other one I want to talk about quickly is the

Agriculture committee  You might even be able to load that oil in the rain. I don't know.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to turn it over to my colleague for a question.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Earlier on, railway operations were talked about as a team sport, and Mr. Bishop, you just talked about the complexity of that team sport. I have to say, it was pretty encouraging, though, to hear from our rail companies the changes that have happened. The c

Agriculture committee  I was just actually wondering about the corridors. You mentioned the corridors and getting the particular varieties of grains that need to be on trains without being mixed.

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry—

Agriculture committee  There's an incredible wealth of knowledge there to help. Is there something we can do here in terms of government programming? I think there are many people who walk through that, but they may not know more than how to come alongside. We heard that from witnesses, not unlike what

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I'm glad you mentioned that, because our spouses or significant others play such a significant role, and often we may not include them in everything. I think we've talked about that. We hold back because we don't want to expose them sometimes to the full difficulty of how we're f

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Thank you both for coming out. We have the greatest industry in the world in Canada, and that's agriculture. I believe that to be true. It sustains life for Canadians and many people around the world, because we export. I don't believe food safety is an issue here in Canada. It's