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Chemical Product Industry Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman is touching upon an issue that he, this government and I regard to be very important. That is the harmonization of our regulatory systems in relation to our trading partners around the world, and of course in the North American context most partic
November 27th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Pest Management Regulatory Agency Mr. Speaker, among the commitments we made at the time of the 1993 election was a commitment to act upon the recommendations of the pest management regulatory report which was published under the previous government. We have made considerable progress in implementing the princip
November 7th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Pest Management Regulatory Agency Mr. Speaker, speaking of landing, I would be delighted to land splat on the hon. member in the next election which I intend to do. In terms of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, I think the hon. member should know that the agency is in the process of getting up and running.
November 7th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Food Inspection Agency Mr. Speaker, I am happy to say that this regulatory process does fall under the jurisdiction of the minister of agriculture. I am happy to assure my hon. friend and the seafood industry that there will be no loss of expertise in the new Canadian food inspection agency. The curre
November 7th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agricultural Marketing Programs Act moved that the bill be concurred in.
November 5th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, the new farm debt mediation act will maintain the essential features of the old legislation including a stay of proceedings and a review and mediation process. At the same time it will avoid a good deal of overlap and duplication. It will streamline the administratio
October 28th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Food And Agriculture Organization Mr. Speaker, Canada takes the world food summit to be held in Rome in November very seriously for a number of reasons. Canada played a pivotal role in the founding of the FAO in 1945. We hosted the 50th anniversary ceremonies of the FAO in Quebec City in 1995 where the foundatio
October 23rd, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, I have had the opportunity to answer this question in the House before. It is very clear in the policy statement that was delivered, both on Friday of last week and Monday of this week, that we will be asking a very clear cut question about whether farmers wish to p
October 10th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party does not like it when I do change my mind and they do not like it when I do not change my mind. I find it very difficult to understand their position. What it is important for the Reform Party to explain to their supporters so that this issue can be
October 10th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Hog Producers Mr. Speaker, the U.S. Department of Commerce has for quite some time now been reviewing the countervailability of a number of Canadian farm programs both federally and provincially, particularly in that period between 1991 and 1994. I am happy to tell the hon. gentleman that as
October 9th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, I can understand the hon. gentleman's frustration. Of course he is perfectly at liberty to call his own news conferences, but he prefers to come to mine in order to guarantee some attention. On Friday I had the opportunity to outline to the news media in Regina and
October 8th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, I indicated very clearly on Friday and very clearly again yesterday what the nature of the question would be. Let me quote: "They", that is farmers, "will be asked a clear cut question about whether they wish to put all barley, both feed and malting, on to the compl
October 8th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, over the course of the last several months, including at a federal-provincial conference of agriculture ministers which was held this past summer in Victoria, I have had the opportunity to consider the structure of the Alberta program. It is fair to say that the prog
October 7th, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Agriculture Mr. Speaker, the matching investment initiative is a very creative way in which my department works with the private sector in increasing the total pool of funds available for agri-food R and D in this country. In the 1995-96 fiscal year, the first year of the program, it was vi
October 3rd, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal
Canadian Wheat Board Mr. Speaker, on the first day of this session of Parliament, September 16, I was asked a question by the hon. member for Provencher as to the timing of the government's reaction to the controversy in western Canada about western grain marketing. I indicated in that reply that we
October 2nd, 1996House debate
Ralph GoodaleLiberal