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International Trade committee  First of all, I want to clarify that we do get briefed regularly by our negotiators, and as a rule we have some of the best negotiators in the world. It does kind of come back to what Stewart talked about: giving as much strength as we can to those negotiators in a negotiation.

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  I think it's the most important question in this negotiation. Going back to Australia and New Zealand, they completed bilateral negotiations before they agreed to the accession. Both countries, to my understanding, are saying they need to implement those bilateral agreements as

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  Thanks, Jack. Clearly, our meat hygiene system and the interventions are the number one impediment. Our processors, to put it candidly, are not prepared to turn down our food safety system to go to Europe. However, I don't want to create the impression that we're in some way inf

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  They're adding some new measures on deforestation that would require, right back to every farm and ranch that the cattle are raised on, an attestation that there was no deforestation, even though Canada will be recognized as a low-risk country. Our big concern is protecting nativ

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  I think the immediate danger to us is that we take.... First of all, we reduce the ambition. We're setting a terrible example for other countries that want to join the CPTPP with the idea that they can come in without addressing a number of these non-tariff barriers. When we brou

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  Thanks, Jack. Thanks, John, for the question. I think there were considerations other than just agriculture, obviously, with the accession to the CPTPP. That's been an indication we've received. I couldn't agree more about the missed opportunity. I know our regulators also fe

May 4th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  Yes, we're excited about the Indo-Pacific opportunities. I think it's all of Canadian agriculture. We talk about beef and we talk about dairy, but the crop sector is doing some of the best work in the world too. I always like to say that the world needs more Canada. As we start t

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  That's a great question. We haven't realized the potential from the European agreement that we were expecting. We do have an application in on one of the non-tariff trade barriers to get the products we use in North America in our food safety system. Part of the reason we're not

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  Yes, I'm sure everyone's aware that we actually took the U.S. to the WTO and won on a case like that. There's some new product of U.S.A.... There's a proposed rule about to come forward. I will say we have very strong allies in the United States who are going to oppose that rule.

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  I'll use a different example. When we first began negotiations with Japan, what was their most sensitive product? It was beef. Over time, what actually happened was that they came to realize that Wagyu beef had a special place in the world. They were able to export and still main

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  I wanted to share some numbers, because I think there was the impression that our exports and our imports.... We had a net export last year of $4 billion. That was a record net. During the pandemic, we increased production. Every year, we fully met the needs of Canadians and we s

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  We work closely with our friends in the dairy sector. It's how it compromises the negotiations that take place. Over the years.... We do have very skilled trade negotiators who try to balance the interests that the Government of Canada establishes. Unfortunately, that is the natu

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

International Trade committee  First of all, thank you. We've seen in the past, when you get into these negotiations.... We saw an unusual approach in the previous administration, when they arbitrarily started to throw tariffs around. It can become very unpredictable, but we know there will be an issue with i

March 9th, 2023Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

Industry committee  Yes. I was going to add two comments. The first is on distances. We can, very efficiently, move cattle long distances. We have an exceptionally positive ability to do that and get animals there in excellent condition. Canada is a huge country—the second-largest in the world. Tha

October 20th, 2022Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft

Industry committee  Maybe I can put my hand up. It isn't all just infrastructure, as we move on this. I know of one company that has 40 trucks sitting today because they cannot get drivers. All of these other things are important, but we do need to address that labour issue. It's very critical acr

October 20th, 2022Committee meeting

Dennis Laycraft