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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Agriculture committee  Yes, definitely.

Agriculture committee  Twenty years.

Agriculture committee  It's probably 40%, as a rough guess.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.