International Trade committee  I think Cargill as a processor would be the only...but on a farm level? No. Maybe at a breeding level, they might have some, but frankly at a farm level, even at a processing level, we're a Canadian business. I think Cargill is the only company, and it has a wholly owned operatin

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Chicken Farmers of Canada proudly represents 2,800 chicken farmers. While the number of other farmers may be shrinking, we are up a hundred farmers in the last year. We are a growth industry on farmers even. We have a value chain, and it's a value-added ind

Agriculture committee  I think the point is that agriculture is our sector. The agriculture department is our home. We need policy support from Agriculture Canada. One of the challenges is that it really does take a whole-of-government approach. We need to work across Finance and Canadian Border Servic

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. As to the farm food safety program, as in all other sectors of production, we received initial funding to develop the program. When funding is provided for program development only, however, there is a greater risk that production sectors will drop their pro

Agriculture committee  Yes, of course. We created the “raised by a Canadian farmer” program. Various retail outlets and restaurants participate in the program. As a result, chicken production and consumption have increased by more than 3% in 2015, and are expected to increase by 4.5% this year. People

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Drouin. I think the challenge here is that we're fully supportive: we've had our animal care program in place since 2009. It's on. It's fully audited every year, and from that perspective it's mandatory for us. There is no ability from any government regulations

Agriculture committee  We see it two ways as well. Our job as well, in doing this, is educating farmers. This is where we think we have right now.... The new code of practice came in and we took that code of practice. We have already decided that there are new elements in there that are not in our an

Agriculture committee  Chantelle Donahue from Cargill took a real lead in terms of developing this. This came out, from Calgary, on building public trust. It got presented to federal, provincial, and territorial ministers. It is taking a value-chain-centric approach to public trust. Right now, we are t

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning committee members. I'm here with my colleague Steve Leech today. Chicken Farmers of Canada appreciates the opportunity to provide input on the proposed health of animals regulations regarding transport. Canada’s 2,800 chicken farmers wil

Agriculture committee  Yes. If you assume four hours for loading and three hours for unloading, the maximum feed and water rest interval in the EU is 19 hours. Our understanding is that the feed withdrawal is 12 hours on top of that, for a total of 31 hours. As there is no international harmonization,

Agriculture committee  I'll just conclude. I'll stop that part and conclude.

Agriculture committee  CFC will continue its leadership role on animal welfare, whether on the farm or in transport. We have the only program that retailers and restaurants can rely on with confidence to assure their customers and all Canadians that the chicken they sell has been raised under the most

Agriculture committee  I agree. New Zealand has a 12-hour limit, but you can go from one end of the country to the other in 12 hours. Did they put it at the maximum so that you're not going to drive a couple of times around the island before you get there? I think you're going to look at what you're g

Agriculture committee  You spoke about an eight-hour period, but in Europe it is 12 hours for chickens. We want to go about this species by species and take differences into account. Most people think that things are better in Europe, but I'm not sure that that is really the case, given the proposals

Agriculture committee  I think we're better off now because there's been a new plant built in Clair, New Brunswick. There's also a new one in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. There had been some longer transport times. Probably those on Prince Edward Island, where there isn't a processing plant, ha