Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. I think that any time you introduce trade agreement technology, that's the issue: is your timing ahead of when somebody else adopts it? That's for any trade agreements, whether it's introducing a new cellphone or what have you. It's really the timing and how much

Agriculture committee  I think you continue the discussion with them and try to answer the questions they have about the technology. Given the size of the market, I don't think anyone would suggest that we just walk away and say that the EU is never going to accept biotechnology, our GMs specifically,

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. There is GM soybean moving into countries within Europe on the basis of the meal for the livestock, and they're all going into the biofuels market. You're right. That didn't start in 1996. That was after significant discussion occurred over just the last few ye

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Again, formalization of these discussions is needed. As I have said before, it hasn't worked to the speed, or to what we feel is required, in the past. So yes, we're hopeful that this working group will help move some of these issue to resolution.

Agriculture committee  As much as it's direct, it's in the pork and the beef sectors. I mentioned that some of the other increased exports—and Gord has touched on this—are in bakery goods, spirits, and soybean oil. Soybeans, for example, and for that matter, corn.... We always think of corn as livest

Agriculture committee  The more we can add value within Canada and move that on—

Agriculture committee  —rather than ship the raw product, the better, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  Again, it puts another demand on the marketplace, and making sure that we have as many of these trade deals in place as we can gives you opportunity and from a farmer/producer perspective gives us options in the market. You never want to be too reliant on one or two customer mark

Agriculture committee  Well, we haven't done the estimate of that, but the opening of this market puts some more demand on it, either through the livestock industry or directly. As I said, for the first time ever we have exported some corn into that market. Up until this point, we have been pretty well

Agriculture committee  I couldn't give you the detail on who populates that committee, other than that I understand there would be broad representation of the stakeholders involved.

Agriculture committee  I understand that it would represent all the stakeholders, but I don't believe that the numbers and who would populate it have been decided.

Agriculture committee  My understanding of it is that it would be broader than dealing with the GM issue and extend to some of the points that Gord spoke to—MRLs, LLPs, etc.

Agriculture committee  Yes.