Agriculture committee  I agree that it needs to be a facilitation role, not--

Agriculture committee  Jim and I actually participated in the same process, the CAPI process, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, on linking food to health, because there is not a clear linkage there in consumer minds and also in the medical community minds. So as the health accord comes up for re

Agriculture committee  I think it comes back to the strategy. If the strategy is sound and it has all the pieces in it, the transition is there. When you pull together the people who need to direct the research.... We do something different from what the swine centre does. We don't call for proposals.

Agriculture committee  I think the program has been absolutely amazing. It's given us flexibility to take industry initiatives that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada would never have looked at. On the human nutrition trials and on the meal studies, the expertise is not within Agriculture Canada, so we

Agriculture committee  I think it's related to demand. We need to make sure that what we're producing, essentially, there is demand for, and we need to create demand. Yes, it's about production efficiencies, but at the same time, you can produce it efficiently, but if there's no demand for it, you're n

Agriculture committee  I'll correct you if you're wrong.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's related to managing diseases in canola. There are some devastating diseases, like blackleg. There is also some cooperative work on sclerotina with the Agriculture and Agri-Food station in Saskatoon, and also a partnership with the Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskat

Agriculture committee  I think one of the big successes about the canola industry has been the value chain. Jim has talked about that with the Vineland research centre. Essentially what has driven the Canola Council of Canada and the canola industry is having growers at the same table as the seed dev

Agriculture committee  Is the question related to how we promote the characteristics of meal? We have promotion programs where we partner with the government. I mentioned the agri-marketing program where we have a partnership with the federal government. Through that partnership program, industry puts

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, and thank you very much for inviting the Canola Council of Canada to speak with you today about Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Growing Forward 2 policy framework. Let me start by underscoring the importance that our industry attaches to strategic, forward-th

Agriculture committee  It's been number one in farm cash receipts for the past four years. Canola is making growers money.

Agriculture committee  Most of the crop that the farmers grow right now is blackleg resistant, so it would not be based specifically on variety.

Agriculture committee  It could. Right now blackleg is traditional breeding. But the companies are looking at a variety of disease-resistant traits, essentially GM. It would provide benefits to the growers, and it would also provide opportunities in terms of increased yield and benefits in terms of t

Agriculture committee  The first year was 1996.

Agriculture committee  About 88% are choosing GM varieties.