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Bill C-18 committee I'm calculating it will be two, but it might be four.
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee Perfect. I think you'll recall, Mr. Chair, that we did provide to the committee yesterday with some charts that set out the staging of the bill, as well as the transition phases. I'd just like to provide an overview of the legislation that is being introduced. The intent of th
November 2nd, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee On this particular issue, we did look at what monitoring means, and we discussed it at some length. I think we've already discussed in earlier testimony some of the tools available to us. I'll ask Mr. Meredith to talk to those issues again.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee These are public reports, and I can provide a list of the reports.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee I think, Mr. Chair, what we can say on this is that the working group did look very seriously, as we mentioned, in terms of its mandate, at the issues related to access to producer cars and short lines. We just spoke about those issues. We also looked very seriously at the issue
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee I'll start and then turn it over to Murdoch MacKay. The working group recommended that the right to ship producer cars remains in the Canada Grain Act, and of course that's reflected in Bill C-18. We also spent a good deal of time talking about the importance of having a sales p
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee Mr. Chair, I think there are a number of tools at play here, and I'd turn to Mr. Meredith to talk about those tools.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee I can't verify those figures. I think that the general understanding is that in terms of barley and wheat relative to the other crops of canola and pulse, there's been a decline in relative shares. However, I'd be glad to ask my department to look at these issues.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee I can't verify those numbers. I can refer people to the George Morris study that was released yesterday, which showed, again, that in terms of relative prices, the prices of wheat and barley have fallen relative to those that have been strong on the canola and the pulse side. In
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee Mr. Chair, I think on this issue I'll say two things. Certainly, in terms of the work we did as a group, we were attentive to what I would call the anti-competitive behaviour of the players in the supply chain. Members did, at the end of the day, want to monitor very closely how
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee Again, I think there are two issues at play here: the transparency of price signals that will now be in place with the new marketing system; and on the quality side there will again be research that is supported by the check-off as well as the work of the Canadian Grains Commissi
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee Mr. Chair, in terms of the working group.... Again, Ian White was a participant, as an observer--
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee He's only one. As I said earlier, Allen Oberg condoned the participation of Ian White. All I really want to say here is that the presentations of the Wheat Board to the working group were focused on two things. One was marketing issues, and the second was access issues and the q
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee There wasn't one from the board. However, in late July officials did meet with officials of the department to review the elements detailed in the letters exchanged between Minister Ritz and Mr. Oberg.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley
Bill C-18 committee I think the confidence is demonstrated in the commitment of the Government of Canada to pass the legislation.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
John Knubley