Agriculture committee  Clearly, I am less familiar with the data on milk production, since I am much more involved in egg and poultry production. The production of eggs and poultry has hardly cost the government a thing; whereas the United States has had some situations where they had to intervene fina

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. There is the health of birds, the environment. I cannot speak about other provinces, but when it comes to the environment in Quebec, we have had agri-environmental fertilization plans in place for many years. They have been easy to implement in poultry and egg product

Agriculture committee  More in Quebec, but not necessarily within supply management. Thanks to FISI, the Farm Income Stabilization Insurance program in Quebec, pork producers who often need government aid receive it very fast thanks to advance payments. The government has found a method that does not r

Agriculture committee  In fact, supply management has existed in Canada for 40 years, in almost all areas of production, including poultry and eggs. Production was moved around on the American side in areas where it was cheaper, where salaries were lower and where agriculture was perhaps easier in the

Agriculture committee  For niche production, it is necessary to find the money in the market itself. That is how it works. There is also the matter of system effectiveness. In Quebec, the system is not quite the same, even though the federal government contributes to the stabilization insurance progra

Agriculture committee  In Quebec, in the offices of the Union des producteurs agricoles, there are accounting services used for tax purposes. Therefore, documents are very often completed by these people. Some producers complete these documents themselves. Often we learn what do to only when all these

Agriculture committee  As for supply management, production is managed within the system, and the risk is inherent to that. Certain risks are part of the production, but are included in the cost of production. Each producer must do his job, carry out the production properly, regardless of field-specifi

Agriculture committee  Currently, the supply management system does not cost the community or the state much of anything. There are some small supply management programs, but they are minor and do not represent any significant amount. In Europe for example, some countries abandoned milk supply manage

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. The only farms that required less aid were the ones located close to plants. Therefore, the farms could not spread throughout the country, as is the case with our dairy, poultry and egg farms, which are present throughout the country. That was the drawback that arose.

Agriculture committee  We need the AgriStability system in case of a disaster. During such times, the program could help. We have not needed it so far since the program was set up after the crisis in British Columbia. We need this program in case anything happens. We promoted this program a lot in Queb

Agriculture committee  We looked at the programs in a very summary manner. For us, Éleveurs de volailles du Québec, the most important program in the poultry sector and that pertains to the supply management issue is the AgriStability Program. AgriStability has not been used much so far, if at all. We

Agriculture committee  I know that, I know that. Ha, ha! To return to the issue of programs, the protection of supply management is essential. That is the case not only for producers, but also for the whole community and industry. One of the missions of our system is to keep the agriculture alive i