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Agriculture committee Thanks for the question. I'm going to approach that from a slightly different tack. There was—I don't think there is any longer—a small bureau inside the policy directorate of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, called the farm women's bureau. I'm a personal friend of one of the
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee They received no money, and they've been told that because it's policy driven they don't want to go there anymore, and if it's research driven, they don't want to go there anymore.
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee Thanks for the question, Alex. It's a huge kettle of fish, it really is, and it's a complex business, but at the same time, I think our federal government, along with our farm leaders, have to take the blinkers of naiveté off. When we have a negotiator sitting around an internat
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee It has to be translated. Okay.
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee You have these?
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee I would urge you, almost implore you, to read this. It's difficult reading, because they do go through the process and they go through the fear that Canadian farm women have, not only for their future but for their children's, and not only for their children but for their communi
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee Sure. I can do that.
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Agriculture committee I guess I'm going to change the tone a little bit and go back to something that Maria Smith said. Maria was the young lady with the P.E.I. Young Farmers' Association. She reminds me of myself 20 years ago, when I married into a fifth-generation family farm. In the 20 years gone b
April 23rd, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee Thank you, Joy. I want to allow Ms. Deschamps to know that this is the executive summary of the big blue book that Hedy held up. I have copies here. To summarize, I haven't painted a very positive picture of where Canadian agriculture is going, but that's not to say it can't c
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee Thank you, Ms. Deschamps. Yes, of the five children, I have a 20-year-old living at home and a 10-year-old. The 20-year-old, a daughter, is the one who would like to take over. Of the five children, I'd have to admit she's the last one I would have thought would return to the
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee Fourteen per cent voted in favour of a complete open market. The other 86% voted for a combination of either keeping the single-desk selling--that is, keeping the status quo, keeping the Canadian Wheat Board--and the other portion bought into the misinformation campaign and the m
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee The connection that I would make, Joy and Hedy and Nicole, is that the power in the marketplace comes from collective activity. We've seen that in the corporatization of the industry. We've seen that in the concentration of the grain handling industry. If it works for corporation
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee Three numbers, Joy. In terms of the Canadian Wheat Board barley vote that was put out to the western grain farmers, 14%, Hedy, voted for the open market. Really, we're the growers and buyers--
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe
Status of Women committee We've had zero return from the marketplace, Joy.
March 29th, 2007Committee meeting
Karen Fyfe