Agriculture committee  I'm afraid we haven't had a chance to fully review it and I can't offer you a well-informed comment right now. I apologize for that.

Agriculture committee  I realize that and I apologize. I haven't read the bill thoroughly enough to be able to comment. In coming to provide testimony, we were trying to broaden the debate to include some discussion about habitat and bring that into the discussion about biofuels, because it does have

Agriculture committee  My comments were specifically to which types of feedstock were utilized in the biofuel industry. So an expanded biofuel industry that continued habitat types such as spring wheat wouldn't be good from a habitat perspective. But a biofuel industry that promoted crops that provided

Agriculture committee  I guess from a habitat perspective there are probably two things to bring up. One is that it's important to act now to protect habitats so that expanding the ethanol industry doesn't come at the expense of remnant wetlands and habitat. On the feedstock side, early ethanol plant

Agriculture committee  It is my understanding, from talking to the folks from Iogen, that yes, the harvest is after the nesting, so it's September or October, when the ducks are well finished nesting in the grass.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairperson, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you and hopefully broaden the discussion to include habitat as part of the impacts of biofuel strategy. Ducks Unlimited Canada is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation,