Finance committee  I'm 84.

Finance committee  For someone, yes, it would look like a creek. But it was dug out to this mudhole, shall we say, so that they could crop the land.

Finance committee  It is roughly 120 to 150 miles.

Finance committee  We haven't had any that I could see. They would probably be very little.

Finance committee  That's exactly what I want to be able to do, to run my own property and my orchard and hopefully make a profit. I have it figured out here that the mileage added.... The gentleman with the high hoe would be coming past my place—I would ask him to come into my farm, and he would

Finance committee  That's right, and the taxpayers—all these people—are paying these two gentlemen who came to our place, whereas it could have been done.... That could have been dropped. I can handle it myself. I've survived for 84 years, so I must be doing something right. Basically I am in an od

Finance committee  I was probably 12 to 16 years old.

Finance committee  I have a deal with the federal and provincial governments for a take-out and replant of an orchard, which will run to roughly $40,000, and that has been put on hold. Now I don't qualify because I had to get these—I nearly said clowns—gentlemen in to look at it. I would presume th

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. My name is Jack MacLaren. I own a small farm outside of Renfrew in Ontario. I have run into trouble with the Drainage Act and the Navigable Waters Protection Act. If you can imagine it, on my farm there's something similar to a bowl—imagine these desks being ab