Agriculture committee  “Competitive”, as I said in my conclusion, is always difficult to define. For “competitive”, use “sustainability”. What we're into is sustainability. We're into environmental sustainability, we're into economic sustainability, and the stability that's in supply management is what

Agriculture committee  Just last week in Montreal, we had a meeting called a research conference seminar with the producers, with some processors, with other industry stakeholders, and with the researchers. Right now, we're in the dairy research cluster. We were looking at where we are now and taking

Agriculture committee  Well, as I say, Statistics Canada says that 66% of the supply management farms are multi-generational farms, which indicates that there is a father and a son, one or two generations, and that in non-supply-management farms it's 16%.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Stats Canada published a record last year that said that 66% of supply management farms were multi-generational farms, as Mark has said, as compared to 16% of the non-supply-management farms. I think the answer to your question is that the stability that's found and the profitabi

Agriculture committee  I think in my circumstances, in Prince Edward Island our electrical rates are such that the cost was from 12¢ to 14¢ a kilowatt. It costs me somewhere around 8¢ to 9¢ a kilowatt that I get producing the power from my windmill. It's that rate because there is a government assistan

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your comments. And thank you to the government and all parties for the continuted support of supply management. We very much appreciate that. In response to your question, the dairy industry has taken that as a concern. We have a new entry program that is across t

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, first of all, for inviting us here today to make a presentation. My name is Ron Maynard. I'm a dairy producer from Prince Edward Island. I farm there in partnership with my cousins and we milk 150 cows. I've been involved in the dairy organiz