Agriculture committee  No, the programs aren't working.

Agriculture committee  You said in the beginning to identify the problem. The problem is the profitability and our ability to be competitive. So the question then is, is the program going to fix that? If the program is going to fix that, I don't know which one it is, because that's not what my expert

Agriculture committee  Yes. It's the fact that we don't have a Canadian food policy. We don't have a statement that says this is the way things are going to be with food in this country. Once we decide that a food policy is important for our nation, we can move forward, but right now we don't have that

Agriculture committee  Probably the one thing that I would work on strongly is a Canadian food policy that everyone can work collaboratively around. I think we need to cooperate and we need to decide that this is what we need to do for our farmers and for our people.

Agriculture committee  I don't see how you can get around this, unless you're going to ask people to sign some kind of moral code that they're not going to abuse a program that's there, in order to make it more accessible to young entrants. As with any of what's going on, it's based on trust. And it wo

Agriculture committee  Well, I certainly think it needs to be regional. I guess I don't know. I don't know the answer. Definitely debt reduction is huge. Opportunities for investing in green infrastructure are really important. Peter is right. When there is no money to invest but you really want to g

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I think there is a lot of creativity and a lot of willingness to do things, especially around green technology. It's a matter of being able to put that into your mind and go with it, or to be able to access a fund or some sort of support system to take it off. I am

Agriculture committee  There are multiple definitions of a family farm, but basically I would say a family farm is a family, like a mother and a father and children. And some family farms are getting bigger, and some family farms are staying smaller. Some family farms have thousands of acres and millio

Agriculture committee  I would also like to add to that. When we're talking about the future of farming, I would really love to see the future of farming not look like a whole bunch of subsidies. That is not how I want to carry on into the future. I do not want to have to sit down and spend like four w

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  Is that over?

Agriculture committee  We all have to be faster.

Agriculture committee  Well, I certainly think we have what is close to a monopoly right now with the grocery store chains. We need to work at building some kind of incentive for them, whether it's through some kind of tax...I don't know, but an incentive where the more they're able to purchase local,

Agriculture committee  Thank you. He mentioned the question about opportunities, and I think we can definitely broaden our market opportunities. We can and we should. That's one of the reasons why it's so important that we continue to have our research here in our region, to be able to develop those o

Agriculture committee  No, there's not enough time.