International Trade committee  I thought I answered that. As a person who does supply—I pack blueberries and I supply them to different retail chains—if you said to me, “Give me specifically what is on that particular berry”, I would have a very difficult time doing that. There's desire and what we want versu

International Trade committee  I think that's a very fair statement, and that's why we come back to having a standard, a Canadian standard, that other countries will have to meet, and that's again in their labour standards, their organic standards. Does it match up with ours? Is there actual testing being done

International Trade committee  Interestingly enough, there are fruit wines, like non-grape fruit wines, raspberry wines. There are a couple of companies here that have been doing fruit wines that have just taken off for export.

International Trade committee  Ray also grows kiwis. He wanted to mention that.

International Trade committee  It has come up from some of the members but I think as this negotiation starts to move forward you'll start to see that. But I don't see any industry that's really marketing something so unique that it could be wiped out by a generic at this point. So I think it will come up. I t

International Trade committee  Contrary to...we don't grow them in ditches either. I just wanted to add that point. I just wanted to tie up a couple of loose ends. One was the question by the vice-chair about why tariffs were set in the first place with the demand that's there. The demand came after. The ta

International Trade committee  Number one, before we enter into any type of sale to a country, I think each side has to know what is acceptable, what isn't acceptable, and how such a dispute will be handled. I don't think we're looking for prescriptive dispute resolution. We're looking for a process. A process

International Trade committee  It was free. That's a rarity; you should have it framed. I think we're just looking for the actual process, how it will be dealt with. We do have a Dispute Resolution Corporation here in Canada that deals with disputes between Canada and the U.S. when it comes to fresh produce.

International Trade committee  The U.S. has been trying to implement country of origin labelling, or COOL as they call it. I think it's important to the consumer. As an importer-exporter I don't know if it's necessarily that important, but I think the consumer has a right to know where that product came from.

International Trade committee  Thanks. I'll temper my comments between my personal opinion and that of the BCAC board. When it comes to labelling, the two industries that it's affecting the most right now are greenhouse vegetables and organic. Organic is concerned about labelling and also GMO. They're concern

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  There are a few what we call emerging sectors, which are not necessarily covered at the moment. Mushroom production. They're having some challenges within their organization and structure, so they at this moment don't belong, although they might belong through another group. Som

International Trade committee  No. BCAC represents commercial agriculture, and we define “commercial” as large or small. So it's if you are growing to produce, to sell, to produce for a profit. You could be two acres or you can be 2,000 acres, but you're not growing a backyard garden and a couple of sheep for

International Trade committee  I think it's important in our society. We want to know a lot about our foods, a lot about our products, where they come from, how they're grown. I specifically—I'll refer mainly to my experiences—don't buy certain products from certain countries for packaging say, or boxes, clams