Agriculture committee  Quite often we'll read that a European country like Sweden or Norway has banned a pesticide, and we don't know enough about the background. Almost always those are bans in agriculture, but those countries don't have much agriculture. They have a heck of a forestry industry, and t

Agriculture committee  The biggest single issue I see is that currently the company that owns ClearOut 41 Plus in Canada has chosen not to participate in GROU, as the other 12 companies did. If the OUI program ended yesterday, let's say, they would be at the table tomorrow to participate because no com

Agriculture committee  On the market size that enables a company to return their cost of registration, they have ten times the population, but for some crops they have 20 and 30 times as many acres as we do. Probably the only crop where it's different is canola, where we have 12 million acres and they

Agriculture committee  No, I don't think so. I don't think the committee has to reverse their position at all, Mr. Easter. I think the committee suggested that OUI be available, and that, to me, means it is not thrown away forever. It's available. It's sitting there. If GROU doesn't work, then you ca

Agriculture committee  That's the only way you'll get them at the table, yes.

Agriculture committee  The GROU program by itself would not, but the GROU program and all the other pieces of the agreement, yes, would go a long way to helping to solve that for apple growers and cucumber growers and lima bean growers and a whole lot of other people.

Agriculture committee  Canadian apple growers have had the worst five years of prices of all time, and it's because their cost of production is higher than the cost of imports. Part of the reason that imports are cheaper is because the competitors have access to production tools that give them a cheape

Agriculture committee  Yes, the NAFTA North American label working group has had volunteers from several of the companies bringing forward products for NAFTA labelling. The group includes a number of the bigger companies. I don't believe the list of products the committee is working on is on the site

Agriculture committee  When the committee reached their agreement, the CropLife company agreed to participate and provide the data under the GROU program for free. So suddenly growers didn't have to pay to show equivalence to companies that do that. The other thing is that that company's product was

Agriculture committee  I have just a supplementary point. We all know there are many pesticides registered in the United States that have never been registered here. But there's an even greater number of products that were registered in the States and then subsequently came here seven to ten years lat

Agriculture committee  There actually were some. We had a grower who took part in one of our meetings by conference call. He took part in the program in 2005, and he went back to his dealer in early 2006. The price of the product here had come down to some extent, to the point that he was going to st

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Chairman Bezan and members of the committee. I've been given 10 minutes. Please excuse me if I use English. If I tried to do it in French, I'd need 100 minutes and wouldn't do it very well. I apologize for that. A number of the points made by Karen and also by Gordon