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Agriculture committee  We had a commission on the future of agriculture. A lot of what you've talked about came out in that, trying to brand P.E.I., and I'm optimistic that we'll make some progress. But we have to recognize the core problem in agriculture. If you go into a grocery store, there are 50,000 items on offer, but in reality that's simply different combinations of corn, soybeans, wheat, potatoes, and beef, commodities that are sourced from processors at the lowest possible price, wherever they can get them in the world.

May 13th, 2010Committee meeting

Randall Affleck

Agriculture committee  Essentially a lot of farmers in the NFU are of the opinion that the current domestic food system is totally broken. So this is an alternative strategy, not a solution for everybody, but a system that's based on fairly traded coffee and bananas. We're used to that on an international basis, as consumers who are interested can purchase food that's produced to a certain standard or in a certain way.

May 13th, 2010Committee meeting

Randall Affleck

Agriculture committee  They're nothing but a bunch of bandits. We're essentially trying to develop, as a group of producers and consumers, a model that's different from what we have now.

May 13th, 2010Committee meeting

Randall Affleck

Agriculture committee  Yes, I agree entirely with Mike's observation on CAIS. AgriStability, and CAIS prior to that, were designed and might have worked in a normally functioning market. It just does not work whenever the margins are chronically low. I looked at the P.E.I. agriculture insurance statistics.

May 13th, 2010Committee meeting

Randall Affleck