Agriculture committee  It's to you for our fall harvest event. You were very gracious in the success of co-hosting our first event of that type in March. We're having a fall harvest event on November 22, and certainly you would have an opportunity at that time to speak with a number of producers of dif

Agriculture committee  We'll have potato martinis again. For those of you who have not had them, I hope I've piqued your curiosity.

Agriculture committee  Even if we set a target of 50-50, that would be a significant boost. Some of it is going to come from changing varieties, to keep up with varieties of crops we can grow that other countries are growing. It's about taste. It has to be the right price. It has to be there every day

Agriculture committee  Was it Ken Forth?

Agriculture committee  We've talked about a number of things. Certainly within horticulture there are not the marketing regimes, as I would call them, that there are in some other sectors. Part of what we face is a gross lack of market intelligence sometimes, market data, even in some instances not rea

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Certainly it is something that's a huge concern, I think particularly to our sector, but it's not unique to horticulture. In some respects it's evolution, but how do we fend that off? Regardless of whatever happens in evolution, everybody is still going to h

Agriculture committee  Of course, and again, we have a number of them highlighted here. One of the challenges we had in addressing the science cluster was—of course, you have 120 crops—how you are going to manage that in terms of defining priorities. We already had some experience working on our food

Agriculture committee  You are talking about the next generation, are you not? It is a difficult issue, and we are concerned. I think that we may manage it with innovation and some other methods. Profitability and quality of life must also be considered. Life is sometimes difficult for horticultural p

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Good day. It is always a pleasure and a privilege to present our ideas to you. The Canadian Horticultural Council is the national association that represents packers, producers, and storage intermediaries of over 120 different fresh fruit and vegetable crop

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  It's going to increase. I don't want to get into the semantics of terminology, but actually that number is far greater. When we look at the number of potato producers in Canada who are supplying the processors, McCain Foods in particular, they've had it in their acceptance criter

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  With respect to country-of-origin labelling, no, because the trade and commerce piece is under CFIA and the CAP Act--prescribed labelling, grade standards, and those types of things. So for fresh products that has not been an issue for us. It tends to be more in the value-added p

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Yes, of course. We follow closely.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  In terms of our food safety program and where we're going with benchmarking against GlobalGAP and the GFSI, the global food safety initiative, what we have now in Canada is that some of our apple producers—I'll speak about them because I know firsthand, in Ontario and B.C. in par

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I can't give you the complete details on that right here and now, but I will follow up with you.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  The group we went with, QMI-SAI Global, was the group that was internationally accredited to the existing standards, whether it's ISO.... Again, I don't know the proper terminology, but that is in part why we went with that group, because they were the one group that did have tho