Agriculture committee  No, we're not aware of any restrictions that the European Union would have put on. The only thing we know is that since the war started, the imports from Ukraine to the EU are essentially up by 100%. It's quite high.

Agriculture committee  We've seen that two importers are pressing the government, especially the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, to issue export certificates. That suggests to us that they want to import chicken from Ukraine. We have no data indicating that it would be a small volume. As noted earlie

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's correct.

Agriculture committee  We produce approximately 1.3 billion kilograms of chicken a year. You're obviously aware of the three pillars of supply management. The first is production discipline. We normally set our production volumes 14 weeks before a production period starts. That's the process we follow

Agriculture committee  It's a very rigorous process that's governed by an operating agreement approved by the provincial ministers and the federal government. There's a process for consultation between the provinces and industry stakeholders, which include processors, further processors and Restaurants

Agriculture committee  Thank you. We've been made aware that two importers in Canada have been putting pressure on CFIA to issue those export certificates. I was here on Monday and I heard about the volume. I think if there is pressure to have those certificates, it means that significant volume ca

Agriculture committee  They produce slightly more than we do here in Canada. The exception is that they export 40% of their market outside of Ukraine.

Finance committee  Mr. Julian, that's a very good question. We haven't seen yet the impact of the CPTPP on farmers. That being said, we're already in year three of that trade agreement. We expect that when product comes in, it will have a significant impact on our industry because millions of kilo

Finance committee  That's another good question. In the chicken industry, we have not faced that yet. As our chair, Benoît Fontaine, expressed, the risk of depopulation is high. We've seen a few plant closures in Ontario and B.C.—particularly in B.C.—where there was a risk of depopulation because t

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think the processing capacity in Canada pre-pandemic was adequate. Obviously, with this pandemic and the processing plants slowing down their slaughter lines, space and capacity in their plants and so forth, it has created a slowdown in processing capacity.

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the question. I'm not sure if Mr. Fontaine is available. Typically.... Oh, there you go. Mr. Fontaine, do you want to answer the question? I think you're better suited, as a farmer, than I am.

Finance committee  Typically, in terms of making it to market from when the birds get to the farmers, it's about 35 or 36 days, so in terms of planning, you are looking at six to eight weeks, depending on the size of the bird you want to bring to market. If you want to bring a heavy roaster, you ne

Agriculture committee  Certainly, Mr. Fontaine. I think you've already provided a good overview. AgriRecovery helps chicken farmers when they have to depopulate poultry houses. So far, we've been lucky in that we haven't needed to euthanize any chickens, thanks to the efforts of farmers and producers

Agriculture committee  Ontario is the only province that gave us confirmation that it launched AgriRecovery. We've spoken to our partners in all the provinces, and they will be making the request provincially. Thus far, I'm not sure whether the request has been made to the federal government.