Agriculture committee  Unfortunately, it's the competition--Brazil, the United States, and other countries--doing as well or better in the marketplace. It's also partially the value of the dollar, as well as the ability to have enough supply in the marketplace at a time when we want it. For some commod

Agriculture committee  It's a challenge for all of the ministers of agriculture. But given the fixed amount of money available that taxpayers and citizens are willing to provide, and realizing that it won't be an easy discussion but that it will take place over time, our proposal would be to reallocate

Agriculture committee  I'll start by saying that I don't agree with the supposition that the demise of the mandatory Wheat Board will be the end of grain production. It will mean changes, and not everybody will be happy, but what the western Canadian farmers have done with canola and pulses is an examp

Agriculture committee  First, let's look at the small number of farmers in this country who are producing most of the food. It's a fragile number and they're not producing it on a whim and a whistle and a theme of just wanting to go out in the morning and do a few things. They have to produce it using

Agriculture committee  It's interesting working, as the centre does, with some larger processors and large farm producers. As to the comments Ted made about the bias against small, they feel it's a bias against large. Their challenges are that they're trying to reach the marketplace by investing in tec

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the invitation. The George Morris Centre is a national, non-profit agriculture and food policy think tank. We're in our twenty-first year of operation. We're located in Guelph, and we have a national mandate, as I said. We provide economic