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Agriculture committee  —or to continue to get them through the temporary foreign worker program with a pathway to permanency to follow.

October 5th, 2017Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  That's what these discussions are all about. Those are the two solutions we have on the table.

October 5th, 2017Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  Yes. Until the invitation to this meeting came, I was in Montreal with Asta, Olymel, and the rest of the Quebec industry. We've already been in Mississauga. We've been in Calgary, and there's one more meeting coming in Winnipeg, so we've been working on this since about March 201

October 5th, 2017Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  When we were talking about the regulations there, I think we were talking about the divergence between Canadian regulations and foreign regulations. For example, we are having regulations imposed on our industry that are not required in other countries, and yet those countries ar

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  I think that was Carla when she was talking about some of the regulations that are being imposed on food processors by Health Canada and about the cost of mandating all those regulations. She was getting into labelling regulations, as well: the cost of putting on the label, where

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  I want to be clear that 300 is for the whole agriculture sector. That's from the market access secretariat.

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  A lot of them.

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  The way that mechanism functions is that they prioritize everything into four categories. The reality is that there are so many on the list and so few people that they really only work on priority one, if you're lucky. They take a long time to resolve these market access barriers

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson

Agriculture committee  There are a couple of things. One might be more active participation and better funding for Canadian participation in international standard-setting bodies. For example, there are understandings that are reached there that, as Troy was mentioning, some countries won't abide by or

November 15th, 2016Committee meeting

Ron Davidson