Agriculture committee  The question was whether we should have a limit in terms of canola that goes into biofuels. Well, the 2% will be the limit. If there's a 2% mandate, that's essentially what will go in. One of the reasons we need a mandate is that this won't happen without it. The petroleum indust

Agriculture committee  A 2% inclusion rate would mean that the amount of biodiesel needed would be 600 million litres. If you figure out the amount of oil in canola that's required to make biodiesel, it's 385 litres per tonne, so it works out to 1.3 million tonnes. That's assuming that we would take al

Agriculture committee  Just on the biodiesel side of things, when you take a look at something for producing oil, the research that is going on right now is for things like algae, which would produce oil. Any of the other waste products are really a stream for cellulosic ethanol. So on the biodiesel si

Agriculture committee  The $1 to $2 is the resulting activity that centres around building biodiesel plants and crushing plants. So there's an increase in jobs in terms of the build, and yes, that's for an 18- to 24-month period, but there is ongoing employment in terms of crush plants and also biodies

Agriculture committee  We only comment on biodiesel. I think the ethanol and biodiesel issue is something you have to lead, to some extent, along with the universities, etc. There is a lot of negative information out there on biofuels. We agree that you need to look at the feedstock separately. That'

Agriculture committee  Thanks very much for that. This is something we've looked at closely, in terms of the environment. There's a lot of material out there and a lot of reports coming out that will use rapeseed production in Europe as the model for the impact on the environment. I think we have to

Agriculture committee  Right now the proposal is for 2% by 2012, and that's contingent upon the demonstration being completed for cold weather testing. We would prefer to see 2010. We have plants that are ready to start building, and every day that things get delayed is an increased risk to those com

Agriculture committee  Moved to 2010, yes.

Agriculture committee  As I mentioned, we export 75% of our canola. We actually work quite closely with the U.S. canola industry. When you look at demand for canola oil, you see it's increasing. We have quite an extensive promotion program trying to increase use of canola oil in the U.S. in the foods a

Agriculture committee  Europe's biodiesel industry was launched four or five years ago. They've had numerous discussions about the impact of biofuels. In Europe it's primarily biodiesel, because most of their cars are diesel. It's a different dynamic from North America. They have recently been reviewi

Agriculture committee  The issue for us is the incentive program for biodiesel in the U.S., under which they have a dollar per gallon incentive. That works out to about 30¢ a litre for Canada. If there were a mandate adopted in Canada without an incentive program, we would find most biodiesel coming in

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. As already mentioned, I am JoAnne Buth, and I'm president of the Canola Council of Canada. The Canola Council is the trade association of the canola value chain, including growers, seed developers, processors, and exporte