Agriculture committee  You have to understand that I come from British Columbia. Quebec farmers enjoy the largest infusion of provincial money into agriculture throughout the country; B.C. has the least support from the provincial government. As far as developing innovative things on the family farm is

Agriculture committee  No, we cannot, not totally, but we want a bigger share of it.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it is.

Agriculture committee  She's on the ground.

Agriculture committee  Just to answer that first, Mr. Chair, if I may, it's a very appropriate discussion, because it's one that my wife and I are having an awful lot these days. We have a 30-year-old son who's working in the oil patch in northern B.C. He makes more money than all us in this room, if

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'd be happy, Mr. Chairman, to supply that. It'll take some time. How tight is the timeline?

Agriculture committee  Okay. We'd be happy to supply them.

Agriculture committee  Correct. Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's pretty much across the board. We experience flooding from the Americans specifically with soft fruit. The apple deal I'm not that familiar with, as I don't raise any apples. But if you recall last year during the Beijing Olympics, we saw Galen Weston on our TVs telling

Agriculture committee  But this isn't that important. There are all sorts of stories and experiences out there.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for that wonderful opening. I thought I was talking too fast before, but apparently I wasn't. Thank you for that, and Mr. Chairman, if I may, there certainly are additional things we could do. I did mention briefly that there's an opportunity for the Canadian governme

Agriculture committee  I guess, Mr. Chairman, there are probably three major reasons why. There's the economics, obviously. There's been a dramatic overplanting of cherries in the Pacific Northwest of the States and in eastern Europe. Europe has been a very lucrative market for the export part of our i

Agriculture committee  Can I respond, Mr. Chairman, just quickly?

Agriculture committee  I have a very personal experience with this. I reported that an illegal shipment of California nectarines was being sold at a market in Calgary as “Canadian”.

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to the member, we're not technical legal people who understand trade agreements and the technical rules. I guess I would be urging this committee on Canadian agriculture to get to the bottom of it as well. We as an industry...the other member requested t