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Agriculture committee Yes, all of our broodmares are also broken to drive, so if a mare comes up open, that broodmare gets to go to work in the winter. She hauls bales for cattle and helps us train other younger horses. After the foals are weaned, we have people who call us and say, “Do you have thes
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee The meat market, nationally, is very small. If horses are unable to be exported by air, the market will be flooded with meat horses, and there will be no market. That's a concern. How do we dispose of these horses?
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee It's just that we were doing it on a smaller scale, and the price wasn't what it is now. Now the price of the meat market has gone up, so we've increased our herd numbers.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee I'm not so involved with transportation standards. We do transport a lot of horses by trailer, and if the transport standards are being met and exceeded, I don't see why we need to throw more money at them.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee I was at a meeting that he had. I was not invited by him. I was invited by some other members who were meeting with him.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee That's right. I often ask, during calving and foaling season, where's my advocacy group? Who's going to rescue me? It's the loss of sleep and time, and it's injury. We spend tens of thousands of dollars on veterinary bills, medicine, equine therapy, chiropractic care and dent
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Yes, definitely.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Twenty years.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee It's probably 40%, as a rough guess.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee I've heard that there have been conversations started in the past, but I'm not sure where they're at now or if they've fizzled out. I think that for a lot of indigenous people just the day-to-day survival, never mind looking down the road, seems to be what they're most focused on
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Our farm is multi-faceted. We have a lot of things to do to keep it running and keep it together. Raising draft colts is just one piece of our whole farm. All the pieces work together to make the whole farm. Without all of these pieces working together, our farm isn't sustainab
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee No. It's very frustrating. Even more frustrating is MPs saying that they have consulted indigenous producers, when that has not happened. There are protocols and policies surrounding indigenous consultation, and that process has not been initiated.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Yes. The knowledge behind horses and indigenous culture and tradition is hard to compound into this small time frame, but those statements were very uneducated and do not represent the Métis culture or tradition.
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Good morning. I live in western Canada with my husband and children. We keep horses and cattle on our farm. My children and I have our Métis status recognized by our provincial Métis nation. I'm here to provide an indigenous perspective on the meat horse industry in Canada. Reg
March 21st, 2024Committee meeting
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February 19th, 2021Committee meeting
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