Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Tim Klompmaker. I am the chair of Chicken Farmers of Canada. I operate my chicken farm in Norwood, Ontario, with my family. As one of Canada's 2,900 chicken farmers, I usually speak about agriculture, but as you can app

Agriculture committee  That is correct. There was no consultation at all.

Agriculture committee  Certainly one of the abilities that we have within supply management is around the food safety piece. We have 100% of our farmers on an on-farm food safety program, with 100% of them audited so that we can ensure food safety. In having product coming in from another jurisdiction

Agriculture committee  With avian influenza, I've seen first-hand what that impact is on some of our farmers in Canada. Certainly we have stringent processes. When we have a case diagnosed on a farm, that farm is automatically shut down and CFIA steps in and—

Agriculture committee  From a farmer's perspective, once a flock is diagnosed with AI, automatically the farmer is basically removed from even entering their barns and that. CFIA takes control of it and they put a quarantine in place around that facility. Once that occurs, then the CFIA will order thos

Agriculture committee  Given the fact that the majority of the product that would come in would probably be frozen, it has a potential to sit in freezers for a year. So, if we had product coming in until June, it could, potentially, have impacts on us until June 2024. It's not just within the time fram

Agriculture committee  We look at production volumes on an eight-week basis, so every eight weeks we set that production volume.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Tim Klompmaker. I'm a chicken farmer from Norwood, Ontario, and chair of Chicken Farmers of Canada. Supply management is the reason why I am a farmer. My parents took over the farm from my grandparents in 1972, and supply management was the rea

International Trade committee  Thank you. Certainly food security is a great bonus that we have within the supply management sector. If you take a look at Avian influenza and its impacts across the country, we have production in all 10 provinces. We had cases in seven provinces, yet we were still able to main

International Trade committee  That's a good question, because I'm the older guy on the farm now. I have three sons who are there. Certainly they take the approach that supply management offers up the stability for them to have investment in the farm. When we take a look at some of the investments that we've m

International Trade committee  I will say that all parties have openly stated that they support our supply management system, and we're thankful for the support that we have. I guess the concern we have is that, every time we go into a trade agreement or trade negotiation, we stand the risk of losing market a

International Trade committee  If I understand, you're asking what percentage I would have to lose before I could no longer function.

International Trade committee  Like I said before, I'm not sure what that point of no return is. That's the problem with it. We've been fortunate that we've had growth within our sector, but I certainly don't want to give my growth away, and I don't want to give what I already have. My concern always lies wit

International Trade committee  From a dollar perspective as to what I would have to set aside, or just what I do have to set aside, I don't know what the future holds as far as new innovation is concerned. I certainly have sons who are looking at that type of thing. Certainly, I need to have the confidence t

International Trade committee  Supply management basically operates under three pillars. Under the import control pillar, we have controls on pricing and we set volumes. As I indicated before, the volumes are set through a board of directors, which has processes for the processors and food services as well. Th