Agriculture committee  It's key.

Agriculture committee  I attended the beef processing round table late last week. This was one of the issues that was brought up. Health Canada and CFIA both made presentations. They're moving forward with a front-of-package labelling initiative that from the food processing perspective could really pu

Agriculture committee  I should mention that one of the other issues that came up in our discussions was this whole concept of a border adjustment tax that's proposed. I think there was a lot of concern there that, if that was implemented by the U.S., immediately everybody else would respond, and you'd

Agriculture committee  The only thing I'd add is that China and India in particular have a tendency, when they need your product, to have one set of rules, and when they don't need your product, there's another set of rules. That's why it's important that if trade deals are going ahead, it is clearly i

Agriculture committee  I think the other thing, too, that is affecting some of the discussion right now—

Agriculture committee  Yes. We have travelled to Washington and to California, Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Across the board, we heard that the trade deal that is in place has been working extremely well. The back-and-forth trade between Canada and the United States in total is almost balanced. There i

Agriculture committee  I think the whole issue of coordinated labelling is going to be critical. It's true not only on the U.S. side moving ahead with GMO labelling but there's also an issue arising in Canada with Health Canada looking at front-of-package labelling, which is creating some concerns for

Agriculture committee  First of all, we were involved fairly early with them when they started out. I think there was a lot of hope about addressing a number of common issues that we have to deal with. I think they did a good job initially. They seem to have lost a bit of steam. Possibly that's because

Agriculture committee  Thank you again for the opportunity to talk about non-tariff barriers. It does seem that the agriculture committee is very busy now, especially with the focus on agriculture from Barton and the export targets set by the government. I think it's important to make sure we deal with

Agriculture committee  The only thing I would add is that even on our own farm, we still rent about 30% of our land, which is good. It works out cheaper for us to rent it than to buy it, although you do come to a position in your farming operation where you realize that you have to own some of those as

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  It would be mostly provincial, I would think.

Agriculture committee  I think in this case it was only operating the weed sprayer across the road last year.

Agriculture committee  We've moved the mark a long way in the last few.... Actually, Alfons and I were at a farm management institute in Ontario together, and that's one of the items that was discussed then; how you increase the number of farms that are doing succession planning. I'm likely not a good

Agriculture committee  I would agree with that. Farm credit has evolved. I can remember back in the day when I was starting out and borrowing from Farm Credit. The saying used to be that Farm Credit would give you a rowboat and one oar, so you were going in circles all the time. They have evolved. I a