International Trade committee  It's been more than 10 years since India has applied it, because India's demand for pulses has continued to grow, and its domestic production has basically been flat to slightly down.

International Trade committee  Yes. We don't see, in the immediate term, any likelihood of it being imposed. We are trying to inject some long-term stability into the regulatory environment, and removing it takes it off the table at some point. India is investing in biotechnology to enhance its pulse product

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today on your discussions around the comprehensive economic partnership agreement between Canada and India. Pulse Canada is the national industry association representing pulse g

International Trade committee  Japan has its own system. Canada has its own system. Many countries around the world that don't have the technical ability rely on Codex, the international food safety standards body. It was set up in the sixties by the World Health Organization and the FAO, the Food and Agricult

International Trade committee  No. I wouldn't want to look at it that way, because it's really an international community that comes together to set a safety standard. Taken to regulatory harmonization's natural end, it would be Codex that would establish one standard for the world. That would mean that govern

International Trade committee  Individual countries decide that they want to have their own standards in place, which I think is all right, but what we need to have is a harmonized approach in terms of the timing, the process, and the assessment of risk factors. Those could then be tailored to an individual co

International Trade committee  I'll answer quickly. PMRA and the Japanese regulators seem to be working very well together. We receive advance notice from Japan when they plan to introduce or change MRLs, so it in fact is an example of a country that's working very well. I think where we could perhaps make

International Trade committee  Here's the challenge we have with Japan, in that Japan's regulatory system does not start looking at establishing an MRL, a maximum residue limit, until it's registered for use in Canada or the United States. The challenge is that farmers can legally use a product, but Japan does

International Trade committee  Yes. And that's exactly the same system that Codex uses. What we are trying to push for across all crops, because we all face the same issue, is to basically push for regulatory reform so that there's a linkage, harmonization, and more mutual recognition of data. We're seeing tha

International Trade committee  Well, I'll relay again my discussion with a member of the Japanese pulse importers from the trade side. He also feels that there is an interest in innovation and a strong interest in human health and environmental protection. We already are a big trading partner with Japan, so I

International Trade committee  We have been very supportive of the transportation policy direction that the minister and Mr. Merrifield noted back in March. As I said in my presentation, we've been working with a coalition of exporters from the coal sector, the automotive sector, forestry products, and fertili

International Trade committee  We have a very complex logistics system in Canada, especially if we take a look at pulse exports to Japan, which all go in containers. You can imagine the number of steps between moving them from a farm to a processing plant and arranging equipment—whether that be a container in

International Trade committee  I haven't heard anything from the trade side that would suggest that the Japanese people or that Japanese trade is concerned about the standards we have in place. I'll give you my perspective. Traditionally regulators in all countries have looked at their responsibilities and h

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. Pulse Canada has been in existence for 15 years, and we have been steadfast supporters of bilateral trade agreements, because market access really is a prerequisite to our

Bill C-18 committee  Well, I think you raise some key points. The discussion around a service level agreement is to define performance, to find repercussions if performance standards aren't met, the performance standards that would be agreed to by a shipper and a carrier. So I think we'd look to se