Agriculture committee  Thanks. That's a great question. On the inward inspection and weighing, when a farmer delivers to a country elevator, it's looked at by the elevator agent. It's graded by the elevator agent and accepted into that primary elevator. That's the first inspection. They look it over p

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good evening to members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me here today to speak about Bill C-45 and changes pertaining to the Canada Grain Act and the Canadian Grain Commission. I'm here today in my capacity as general manager of the Canadia

International Trade committee  I think economics will prevail. The U.S. is also a major customer of ours internationally, so if we sent more to Japan through the west it would make more economic sense to draw from the western provinces where there's heavy production. That would open the door for EU exports fro

International Trade committee  I think the objective would be to get it off zero. I think we could live with some subtle discrepancies country to country, whether it's 0.1% here and 0.3% there. That's much easier to manage than everybody staying at zero, which is consistent but is commercially impossible to a

International Trade committee  No, it is all GMO. We don't segregate out non-GMO. There's such a small piece of Canadian production, it's all mixed together. It's a GMO crop in total, and that's what Japan takes.

International Trade committee  Yes. That's true, but there's always some risk.

International Trade committee  But there have been no rejections.

International Trade committee  That's right, yes.

International Trade committee  I am just going to follow up on the low-level presence issue. Japan is quite reasonable when it comes to technical issues regarding GMO traits. They are good to work with, but it is always a risk that Canada may have an expired trait or a trait long since decommercialized. Thos

International Trade committee  Well, there's some subtlety between GMO versus herbicide-tolerant.... If you're looking at the new herbicide-tolerant systems, we're well over 90% GMO overall, and for all intents and purposes canola is a genetically modified crop.

International Trade committee  I don't have the answer to that, I'm sorry. It's probably embedded in history, I don't know.

International Trade committee  When you convert it to a percentage of the price of the commodity going in there, that's at least the starting point where you can compare apples to apples. They're all on a percentage basis. The exact calculation, given the differences in the oil content and the structure of t

International Trade committee  Seed is commercial production of seed, not seed for seeding, so I'm glad you highlighted that. As to the rate for canola and soybean oil going into Japan, the tariff is 10.9 yen per kilogram—around $55 a tonne. It fluctuates depending on currency exchange rates. The tariff on se

International Trade committee  Yes. As I mentioned earlier—

International Trade committee  We've seen a significant expansion to the crush industry here in Canada, so we have an incredible increase in our capacity to ship oil now, as opposed to a number of years ago. The canola industry has invested heavily in infrastructure, and we are positioned to start shipping the