Agriculture committee  In the 1980s a lot of farmers were in trouble. There was a farm survivor association. Dr. Gary Gurbin, who was the member of Parliament at that time, set up the Farm Debt Review Board, and I worked on that as a farmer member. My respect for banks went downhill quickly during that

Agriculture committee  I'll speak to it. In the beef business, we have one major player in Ontario. It's Cargill. In Ontario, we used to have the highest price of beef in the fat cattle market, because within 400 or 500 miles there's a tremendous population. This winter, we had the lowest-priced fat c

Agriculture committee  I'd like to thank the group for coming here today to what we sometimes call God's country. It's a great place to live. When Larry called and told me that this was to be about young farmers, I thought he'd called the wrong person. I'm 61 years old, so I'm older than the average