Agriculture committee  If I might, the report the clerk circulated to you is Professor Cuming's report. We did not touch it. Volumes went into this. As you might imagine, the constitutional research and the bankruptcy research is all there. You have the 11 pages, and that includes the four pages that a

Agriculture committee  If I may be so bold, you would have to re-engineer an entire system. With all due respect, you have a situation here where a raspberry can be picked on Monday morning and be on your table by Friday. It is that dynamic that makes it impossible to have futures contracts. It is that

Agriculture committee  Building on your last comment, this is about levelling the playing field between the U.S. and Canada. PACA in the U.S. is not perfect. This industry has been very clear that they're not looking for perfect; they just want the playing field levelled. The other thing I would thro

Agriculture committee  In the beginning, the original document, particularly his background at the beginning of the document, spent a lot of time talking about how a trust could be used before the firm became bankrupt. He had even gotten into a little bit about how the provinces could play a role in th

Agriculture committee  Within the United States, the process of removing reciprocity is an administrative function. The act of PACA sets out who can and can't have it. Once it had royal assent, I can't speak for the USDA, but I can tell you, having visited with a number of them, that if it provides t

Agriculture committee  Unfortunately, that's true on both sides of the border. What Jocelyn was trying to explain is that the rules we have at DRC are very similar to PACA. If you go bankrupt, close down your business, and just walk away, you can't come back and get another licence or another membershi

Agriculture committee  I think we should probably make a separation between those disputes that involve a legitimate inspection—for example, the strawberries weren't as red as they should be, so what we really are looking for is an adjustment service—as opposed to cases of somebody who just doesn't wan

Agriculture committee  Okay. Absolutely. In fact, the gentleman who wrote the letter withdrawing reciprocity has laid out the point several times publicly about what it would take, and it is essentially the deemed trust.

Agriculture committee  Currently? The farmer does.

Agriculture committee  The money will come from the gentleman who filed for bankruptcy. I will go back to my previous example, because I think it helps. The gentleman who took my product either has my product, he has the cash from selling my product, or he has my account receivable. I want whichever of

Agriculture committee  Okay, but where did my account receivable go? It's gone somewhere else.

Agriculture committee  Yes, he's dissipated the trust, and therefore that money comes back to the farmer.

Agriculture committee  Well, it's been working in the U.S. since 1984.

Agriculture committee  I'll have to add myself to the line of people asking that question.

Agriculture committee  If I might be so bold, I truly think it was confusion. It has only been in the last year that most people understood that we know the difference between solvency and insolvency, that we're not asking to copy what's in the U.S., that we understand the Canadian solution will be dif