Agriculture committee  That's true.

Agriculture committee  I can just mention a few things from the Ontario experience. When we had the Gencor plant that started in Ontario to respond to BSE, they went through a nightmare dealing with the regulatory requirements of getting that plant up and operating. Sometimes it was just foolish stuf

Agriculture committee  Wayne, just on that issue of regulatory costs, I think it should be brought—

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  I'll start on some of your last questions. You mentioned the NFU report. Some aspects of that NFU report do bear some looking at, but I think we have to recognize there is consolidation in the packing plants, just because of costs. We know that's going to happen, but we also kn

Agriculture committee  It's always dangerous to ask me for a short answer. When we were talking at the Canadian Federation of Agriculture level about AgriFlex, it was about taking a look at some of the priorities we wanted within the different provinces and trying to equalize some of the inequities t

Agriculture committee  That's quite all right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. People should know we actually came from the same county in Ontario at one time. My name's Ron Bonnett. I'm vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, but I'm also a cow-calf beef producer from northern Ontario. I thi