Agriculture committee  Bob Friesen of the CFA would be a good representative to speak to that. Grain Growers of Canada were on it. How about the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, CCA? All those groups work together, and they have to work by consensus. Those of us in the farm community say those people

Agriculture committee  Basically I think we have a “wait and see” attitude. But we are skeptical—that would be a good word—and we'll see what comes out of it.

Agriculture committee  Crop insurance, as Stephen said, works on crop production and that, but it does not cover low returns from the marketplace. We could produce 300 bushels an acre, and if we only got $1 a bushel out of it, we'd still be in--

Agriculture committee  No. Crop insurance is for the production end. We need something over and beyond that, and there's going to be a broader discussion on that. And you need somewhere in that area...and we need to really talk about this and actually come up with different programs on that.

Agriculture committee  Since I raised the topic, I guess I get the first kick at the cat here. On farmers' participation and the feeling about what the process is, I don't know how many people I've talked to about when we went through the APF 2 process. Everybody was wondering, is this really going to

Agriculture committee  Well, you're going to get diverse--

Agriculture committee  My opinion is, if we're providing a good whereby people actually come out and enjoy the countryside and they demand it of us, then we could get paid for it.

Agriculture committee  Part of the problem is comparing eastern Canada to western Canada, Myron, and you also compared the U.S. to Canada. We also compare Europe to Canada, and then look at the value-adding that's done. Part of the thing I have noticed over the years is that value-added comes as your p

Agriculture committee  That's a very good question. We view it like this. We've looked at the top-tier CAIS type of thing, with the top 30% right now in terms of how it's paid out and the rules under which it is actually paid out. If you had a NISA-style program on top of the CAIS program, it would be

Agriculture committee  There has to be a time limit. We need a NISA-style program in which we can draw that money right away.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's a topic that is very relevant within the agriculture community itself. We've all heard about the 100-mile eating habit, or whatever they call it--trying to source all your products within 100 miles. When I look at that and I look at some of the things closer to our lar

Agriculture committee  That's a hard question to answer, really, when it comes down to it. On the first part, if a visitor comes in, he would definitely get a vision of the diversity of agriculture within our different regions. When you're talking from the far north of Peace River country all the way

Agriculture committee  One thing I would like to say on having government is that we actually need government, or some funding within our farm organizations or other organizations, to show the complexity and also the diversity within agriculture, and it's going to come maybe not just to visitors but al

Agriculture committee  We have nine recommendations. They're very short one-liners.

Agriculture committee  Okay. Producers need a true partnership between producers and government in program development. We need to reinstate the National Safety Nets Advisory Committee or form a new similar committee that has representatives from all the national farm organizations and representati