Agriculture committee  We get pushback from our processors because they can obtain that product cheaper from other countries. They don't want to put that labelling on there.

Agriculture committee  And then call it “Product of Canada“.

Agriculture committee  Having heard what Robert and Joe said, we're seeing that we need to educate our consumers with these labels. If they don't know what they're getting, they're not going to choose the local product. When the mark-up is after the farmer, and at the retail level, it's at a point where the consumer can't even make the decision to help the Canadian farmers.

Agriculture committee  I think supply management is more than just managing your supply. It also involves the tariff rates that allow products to come into the country, and those tie into the quality of the product that would be coming in. That's something that could be adapted to other commodities more easily than having just the full supply management model.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  I think something that's involving Canada, too, is the mentality of consumers and their want of cheaper food. I know that in other countries that produce a high quality standard of food, which we do in Canada as well, they're able to pass it on to their consumers. That's something we need to be able to educate our consumers better on, to show the standards that we have in Canada, to pass that on to our consumers.

Agriculture committee  Similar to that is the fact that we also have issues with urban encroachment. The same people who want to put a nice fancy house on 20 acres of property and have horses are the ones who are taking away land that we can use as farmland. It would be much nicer to have that usable land, because it comes at a premium these days.

Agriculture committee  That's my situation too. I used to farm 80 acres of raspberries, but we couldn't find the labour, and I didn't want to learn Spanish. We've amalgamated to full poultry. I run a poultry farm now because of that.