Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think you make a compelling case for how business needs to evolve and modernize to remain competitive. It's a belief I share. So while there may be some resistance to change, I embrace change. It's a balancing act that we each do as individual businessm

Agriculture committee  On the question of winners and losers and of farmers and their geographic location and those kinds of...? We all make adjustments everyday on our farm. I do that. Market events happen all around the world that I have to adjust my business plan to accommodate, to try to shelter m

Agriculture committee  Again, our task force mandate was narrow. It was to answer the technical questions for transition. There's been debate since I was a baby about the value of single desk versus the costs people associate with marketing. I would say it's not a revolutionary change, not a drastic c

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, I can think of any number of ways that the CWB II could construct its contractual arrangements with farmers. There are a variety of ways it could pool. There could be annual pools, shorter pools, or they could have two or three pools running simultaneously. There ar

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, because it's an important one I want to clarify. First and foremost, I am a member of the board of directors of Agricore United. Our governing act is an act of Parliament that sets out the governance and control of the company. I'm one of 15 members o

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My apology if I didn't get all your question. I was on the wrong channel to start with, but I think I have the gist of what you're asking. The reference we made to winners and losers in a sense was that we didn't direct the comments specifically to a se

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and committee members. Thank you for the invitation to be part of your deliberations as you discuss very important issues respecting the wheat and barley industry and its implications for farmers and the entire wheat and barley value chain. The task f