Agriculture committee  Exactly, or we simply looked at the label.

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely, they have six months to import and six months to re-export. That also causes some synchronization problems. If the market is good, we import something, and then we re-export it when the market is not as good. So we use a lot of different things.

Agriculture committee  We have asked the government to provide us with a list of the companies that participate in this program, but we have not been given this information. All of the other quota holders are indicated on the Foreign Affairs website, with the exception of the people who participated in

Agriculture committee  You're going to be able to test my French when I start talking about protein content. First of all, we are not against the Import for Re-export Program that is now in place. We do, however, have some major concerns about it, in the way that it is applied and in the possibility t

Agriculture committee  When it comes down to it, we're dealing mostly with tariffs now. As we start to see tariffs go down, countries that truly want to protect their markets find other means to do so. I'll compare Canada with U.S. and Australia in terms of chicken. The U.S. doesn't have any tariffs

Agriculture committee  In our view you have a harmonized tariff system. Anything in chapter 16 is declared a meat product. For something to be categorized in that chapter it needs to have at least 20% meat content. So if it's in chapter 16 and it's a meat product, it's either a chicken, beef, or pork p

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On behalf of Chicken Farmers of Canada, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to share our views with you on the issues affecting competitiveness of all Canadian agriculture. Our chairman, David Fuller, sends his regrets that he wasn't able to make i

Agriculture committee  Roughly speaking, of our domestic consumption, about 91% to 92% is from domestic and the rest is from imports. While there have been only two supplementals in beef since 2003, there are supplemental imports every single year, all year long, in poultry.

Agriculture committee  We don't import live chickens. People can bring in whatever they want, so they'll bring in the highest-value product, and “live” would not be that. They can if they want to. Yes, the meat can come in and go into a product, and that product can be labelled “Product of Canada”. T

Agriculture committee  They rarely bring it in for that. They usually bring it in to put it in another further processed product; they're going to put some value in it here. On that value part, our view is that they have to get that value up to a certain level to make it a product of Canada. I think th

Agriculture committee  It's exactly the same. It comes under the meat inspection regulations. John has one for an importer. If it's actually going through a plant, you'll usually see an establishment number on the bottom part.

Agriculture committee  That's how you know where it's from. But then you have to search on the CFIA website. Those of us in the industry can find it pretty quickly, but I don't think a consumer can necessarily go through and find where it's coming from based on that.

Agriculture committee  Veterinary agreements are the means by which CFIA approves the inspection regime in another country and that country approves our inspection regime. Our only issue there is that we don't get consulted in terms of what countries and what processes are going on, and what the risk

Agriculture committee  For us it was coming back to the essential character of the product. If you walk down a grocery aisle, frankly, the challenge for us in the meat industry overall is that even if it's a packaged product, most of it is sold by the meat and then the add-ons that go into it. Certai

Agriculture committee  I'm going to think about that. I had not thought about that, that there is a difference between the two. But there is no doubt that it is necessary for us to ensure that a product labelled "Product of Canada" truly is a product of Canada.