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  Yes, that is right.

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  Our system has changed over time or evolved to do that. It really becomes a question of how efficient the processing and marketing are, as well as the production. If you are in a province where you have a processor that is not very aggressive and not a good marketer, it unfortuna

Agriculture committee  No, because there is a national agency that looks after layers. These are egg producers.

Agriculture committee  No, that is a separate association. I do know that this association does have a research program for medicine.

Agriculture committee  No, that is not the same thing. With regard to research and the questions that your colleague asked earlier, we think there needs to be an increase in research going forward. The problem arises when the focus is placed on innovation alone, and not competitiveness. Competitivene

Agriculture committee  Yes, that is a fact. We import close to 8% of our consumption. These imports are only value-added products, such as boneless and skinless chicken breasts. That amounts to approximately 15% or 16% of our market. Given the retail situation in Canada, the Americans have the capaci

Agriculture committee  In terms of horsepower, we're at a troubling time right now, losing our chief agricultural negotiator, which is great for him—he is off and has received a promotion, and that's fantastic. That being said, from what I understand, we've had some difficulty filling the job of chief

Agriculture committee  Ministers do change.

Agriculture committee  Yes. I'd say that's the biggest challenge concerning the WTO, and I think the other one is the uncertainty about where it's going right now. We talked about an intendence going in a different direction at the WTO and about whether it is going to go strictly to agriculture. There

Agriculture committee  I think what you're seeing from the U.S. is a real concern. I'll call it addressing the elephant in the middle of the table, which is Brazil, which wants to hide behind being a developing country, not provide any access, take every single provision to get away from it; and the U.

Agriculture committee  It's the same way with the cattle industry. Not all parts of the bird are preferred by Canadians. Primarily dark meat goes to the Philippines and Taiwan. In fact, we've created quite a market in the Philippines, because in western Canada we feed wheat and barley as opposed to cor