Agriculture committee  I'm going to present something a bit different for you to think about. From the pulse industry's perspective, it's time to shift the focus away from the farm and onto food. I'm going to demonstrate this through an example. Take a standard formulation for bread in this country,

Agriculture committee  It's an interesting question that I don't have an answer to at the moment, but I would be happy to get back to you with our views later.

Agriculture committee  The industry is very supportive of the cluster model and looks forward to working with a similar model going forward. I'd identify a few priorities here. We've consulted broadly on this, just to identify some key things they want to see going forward. Building on success will i

Agriculture committee  The agrifood industry has been pretty clear in its expectations about addressing two key things. One is to ensure that we create the right conditions within the legislative and regulatory framework to support effective service level agreements. With the introduction of Bill C-52,

Agriculture committee  I think it's critical for the next policy framework to acknowledge the important role that transportation plays in making us successful domestically in North America and around the world. The last time we applied for funding under GF2 to address transportation, we did it as a c

Agriculture committee  It hasn't emerged as a priority for us at the national level. From time to time, depending on the labour demands in western Canada from the oil industry, you'll see a bit of a constraint on labour available in processing facilities across the west, but it currently isn't an issue

Agriculture committee  Before I turn things over to Ron, I'll just say quickly that business risk management doesn't fall within the mandate of Pulse Canada. Our members address it directly or through their affiliations with other associations, so I would defer to them.

Agriculture committee  Fortunately, on Thursday we'll be in Montreal to hear from Minister Garneau as he reveals his national strategy, his vision for transportation in Canada, which will address, hopefully, some of the issues that the Canadian agrifood industry has been emphasizing in two areas of foc

Agriculture committee  Thank you. It's an excellent question. In the western Canadian cropping rotation, of course, we're not talking so much about moving fresh fruits and vegetables great distances. We're talking about achieving greenhouse gas emission reductions through efficient use of input, suffi

Agriculture committee  One of the things that we looked at when we looked at opportunities to build on success was the transition we saw between the previous agriculture policy frameworks, Growing Forward 1 and Growing Forward 2. The key supporting programs include things like the support for our Pulse

Agriculture committee  When I talk about transformational opportunities for innovation, I'm referring to the need for us all to start to focus on food that can deliver health outcomes and simultaneously deliver environmental outcomes. This type of thinking is relatively new. This concept of a food sy

Agriculture committee  From a production—

Agriculture committee  Continuous improvement of the current varieties that are out there in lentils, chickpeas, peas, and beans is going to be essential. I know that in Saskatchewan and Alberta they're heavily focused on developing fava bean varieties that will be adapted and well suited to all arable

Agriculture committee  Thank you and good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning to all committee members. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee today. I want to start with a brief introduction to our organization. Pulse Canada is the national industry group that represents farmers, p

Agriculture committee  First of all, I won't pretend to speak for Quorum. These are the guys you want at the table with government, deciding hand in hand how we'll go about understanding whether order fulfillment is adequate for movement across all corridors of all commodities to all shippers, small, m