Agriculture committee  I believe it will, because with the way country of origin labelling is set up now and the wording of it, it has processors down in the United States and retail having to put a cost on. That cost is not borne by them; it comes right back to the primary producer. That's where that'

Agriculture committee  I think I'd just like to point out that a large percentage of agricultural farmers within Canada want to trade. There's a large percentage that need this trade. I do congratulate government on the work they've been doing on world trade, but to us, just getting more market access

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  In Ontario, I don't believe we've likely felt the whip of COOL as much as our counterparts in western Canada have. We do ship into the United States. The plants that we go to really do want Canadian content, and they need it to keep their operations viable.

Agriculture committee  We haven't felt the same effect. When you go further west, there have been a lot more plants closed to Canadian product. We didn't experience that.

Agriculture committee  That's right.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to share those with Kim. I do believe there is a future. Right now, with what we have experienced in the last five or six years, it has been difficult for anyone on the family farm. There is a definite future in the beef industry. I'm going to let Kim continue on.

Agriculture committee  I would like to thank the government as well for the emergency loan program that was put forward. A lot of youths took advantage of it, and it has been extended. It's very much appreciated, and if it can stay in place to help in any way, it's a great opportunity not just for expe

Agriculture committee  We do have beef come in from the United States, but we also export an awful lot of live cattle from western Canada into the United States. So the trade effect comes back in beef. The largest provinces, Quebec and Ontario, have the biggest consumer base, and they do bring in produ

Agriculture committee  Thank you. To start off on the age verification, I congratulate the Alberta government for taking the stand that age verification is important. We couldn't agree with you more in Ontario. Three or four years ago Ontario took the stand that they would support mandatory age verifi

Agriculture committee  The trade agreements are necessary. As I said before, we work with a large carcass. We do not eat all of that carcass here in North America. We get added value by shipping some of those parts of the animal. In different parts of the country it's very important, and if we can add

Agriculture committee  I believe it probably was, but one of the things that we did ask for, as associations, was to harmonize with the United States. It was very important to be the same as the United States. They still do not have a feed ban in place. They're assembling one, but they still do not hav

Agriculture committee  Do you want me to go first? We're not in a fair market within our country. We need to have balance. We need to have more balance across the provinces. We have beef in every province except for Newfoundland and the Northwest Territories, I believe. We need to have a market. We in

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  A lot of that came out of the beef round table we have nationally, the request for that. It's great. We appreciate the government moving as quickly as it did on it and moving someone into place. The need to get market access is huge in our business. We're working with a beef indu