Agriculture committee  I can maybe use the comparator to what low tech is to better describe it. Mexico is quite well known, and Spain is well known for low tech. In their climates they don't require having the greenhouse totally enclosed, for example. Mexico is well known for shade cloth production.

Agriculture committee  No, we're very familiar with Red Hat Co-op and Lyle Aleman. We have ongoing dialogue with him through the Canadian Horticultural Council greenhouse subcommittee.

Agriculture committee  Is that to me from the greenhouse sector?

Agriculture committee  Okay. There was one point I didn't talk about, yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I did have a point earlier that relates to how the greenhouse farmers face a serious threat to market access with the lack of an effective security mechanism. Farmers and marketers of perishable produce receive valuable protection within the United States market through vari

Agriculture committee  I do want to talk about that pepper situation with Holland.

Agriculture committee  The bottom line is we are competitive with Holland. I didn't want to leave the misconception that we aren't competitive. That's why we challenged them. They were actually dumping in here. We won the case and we got 193% duty and the Dutch did not put up any data to prove otherwis

Agriculture committee  One of the things most of the major retailers, or definitely the advanced ones, throughout North America are looking for is the traceability on it. We were leaders certainly in the food safety aspect of it. We were almost first out of the box in the produce sector in Canada to pr

Agriculture committee  One of the things we do in the market that's quite unique to.... It's not unique in the marketplace, but we do it aggressively, and that's the use of in-store demos in the United States, in particular. We have a couple of products we grow, mainly the English cucumber and the min

Agriculture committee  I thought I had seven minutes, Mr. Chairperson.

Agriculture committee  Really? I didn't realize that. Nevertheless, we're doing a fair bit of work in developing new markets. One of the things we're looking at is developing the Pacific Rim. We're going to investigate new markets and we ask that the federal government continue to provide financial a

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is George Gilvesy. I'm the general manager of Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers. With me is Leanne Wilson, who is our science coordinator. As far as the freezing, that's pretty symbolic of greenhouse growing because we do things in a controll