Agriculture committee  I don't begrudge--

Agriculture committee  I understand where Lorne is coming from, but they do have an ability to pass those costs through under the formula. I do not begrudge for one minute some of these grain producers' and corn producers' having a better income. It's going to have to be passed on to the consumer at so

Agriculture committee  Are we talking about ethanol only?

Agriculture committee  Yes, and that's a fair comment. I fully acknowledge that and recognize it, but as I say, as far as we as Canadian consumers should be concerned, the issue becomes the health and safety issue, and that's basically where I'm coming from when I talk about the country of origin. Then

Agriculture committee  I don't think that from a Canadian producer point of view we could change it, because I don't think we'd have the authority to overrule a U.S. decision. But if they accept Canadian beef as a high-quality product--and I'm sure they do--they are not likely, in my opinion, to push t

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Larry, you raised a good point, but if you're exporting beef, it's not Canada that will insist on that label. It will be the United States or whatever country imports your beef.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, to Wayne, you raised a very good issue. How is it, according to the statement you just made, that the U.S. can virtually instantly respond? It's not just pork; it's anything that they might see as an action that hurts their agriculture, a product coming from virtual

Agriculture committee  Richard, thank you for that point. I believe Steve Thomson of the BCAC was here today.

Agriculture committee  That issue has been raised with them. I don't think it has been clearly determined yet whether they will become the lead agricultural side of the issue. But you do ask an excellent question. We have to get something in place so that we can track all this.

Agriculture committee  Sure.

Agriculture committee  Richard, the issue here is how Canada Customs follows up on that when papers are filed. You have to have an entry paper, the same as we do for an export. I think it's a B-13 for export, because I used to export grain. It's an issue of tracking all the papers that are filed for t

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On Roger's question about how to deal with it, I can refer to British Columbia and the potato anti-dump that is now going towards 25 years. We've just won our case again for the province on Washington State and Idaho dumping product into Canada, in this

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Paul. You raised a good point. The truth part of it is what the consumer should be entitled to. Why are they not entitled to have a label that is absolutely truthful? If it says it's a product of Canada, it in fact is a product of Canada; otherwise, it's de

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, I have a different issue, very briefly, and that's country of origin labelling. As you know, the United States now is really moving forward on dealing with this issue. We've been raising this at the Canadian Horticultural Council for the last two years. This issue