Agriculture committee  I actually thought in greenhouses things got shorter.

Agriculture committee  I'm very happy to be here today on behalf of Canada's biofuels industry to talk about innovation in the agricultural sector. Canada's domestic biofuels industry, one that takes homegrown agricultural products and converts them into clean-burning renewable fuels, is the very def

Agriculture committee  They are proposing, under the auspices of a “food versus fuel” argument, that biofuels change the way farmers use their land to create biofuels. It is absolute hubris. There is no evidence that it has ever happened. As I said in my presentation, we use less land now to make more

Agriculture committee  No, they're still debating it. My colleague in Europe spends a lot of time lobbying on this, let me tell you.

Agriculture committee  It's scheduled to be voted on by the end of the next European Parliament cycle. It's contentious.

Agriculture committee  I think it's difficult to get capital in a lot of industries. I don't think it's unique to ours. I think investment capital has shrunk considerably since the recession. There are programs that exist right now that we try to take as much advantage of as we can, in terms of creatin

Agriculture committee  To me, the GMO issue is really simple. We need GMOs to allow for the very high crop yields that we have. Our crop yields in Canada have gone straight up like an arrow into the air for the last 10 to 15 years, and we're now producing a very high percentage of corn compared to what

Agriculture committee  If you guys wanted to legislate it being 100% biofuels, I'd support it right here on the spot. In all seriousness, this is actually one of those areas in which the Europeans are really strong thought leaders. They have an aviation biojet requirement that applies to all flights,

Agriculture committee  There are several steps integrated at the same time, so all of us need to walk in unison in order to build out the demand.

Agriculture committee  I'm happy to answer the question. First and foremost, just as we can't predict commodity prices seven years from now, it's tough for me to give a bull's eye for what the number of jobs will be, but opening up the economy and opening up the market will create a lot more confiden

Agriculture committee  We've made this recommendation. This recommendation has been supported by several other trade associations, and I will continue to push for it.

Agriculture committee  We're fairly new at the game in terms of the expanded use of renewables. Brazil got the ball rolling in the early 1970s. They're the ones who are absolutely the leaders in this regard in that they have very high ethanol blends. They can blend as much as E85 for a very high percen

Agriculture committee  It can be both, but it's mostly a blended additive. It is a fuel that is a fuel. Ethanol, for example, is a fuel that can run at the very high level of E85. A lot of vehicles in Canada can run on that level. It's also an octane enhancer. It would accomplish the same goal as an

Agriculture committee  That's the question. Right now far more goes into gasoline. We would like to see advanced blends in the diesel market. We would like to see Canada get up to a 5% blend by 2020.

Agriculture committee  I don't have any concerns with the agreement. I have concerns with European policy. I think the agreement is the best way to resolve the disputes that I would have with European policy. Coming around full circle, they have policy differences that we can borrow from. They have p