Agriculture committee  Traceability does underpin a number of other very important components of Canadian agriculture. Trade is one prime example. We see trading partners require the ability to trace an animal to its farm of origin in certain instances. When we talk about disease management, health ris

Agriculture committee  That's a great question that maybe the pork folks can speak to as well. We are not as massive as others in the trade or exporting sector. I think we've certainly seen examples in which being able to manage that sort of information and definitively understand where the risk lies

Agriculture committee  Thank you. It is a great question, because it is definitely an infrastructure challenge in our sector specifically, and it's more widespread. It's not necessarily a case of being geographically distinguished or separate. We have in our industry a very limited access to compete

Agriculture committee  Yes, and if I may say so, that would be a worthy undertaking. At the same time, I think we need to look at creative and innovative ways of capitalizing on the resources that we do have in using the technology as it advances in other sectors and applying it on the farm in terms o

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  The question was alluding to suggestions for program design. I spoke a bit about the limitations that we have in terms of the industry cash contribution to those projects. For smaller industries like ourselves, industry groups have to support multiple projects, but we work on s

Agriculture committee  Traceability has been a bit of a bumpy road of late in our industry. We've had a national ID program for 12 years. Producers have been paying for their portion of traceability for over a decade now. What we lack to make that system effective in our sector, and I think in all but

Agriculture committee  No, not specifically. In working with TraceCanada, which of course has kind of gone by the wayside in the past few years, we had talked about integrating the food sector and the livestock sector and about managing that data to provide some continuity of information from farm to f

Agriculture committee  We would like to see some changes as well in the approval standards and the process, speed, and flexibility of the programs so that they make them usable.

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and esteemed committee members, and thank you for the invitation to appear here before you today to speak about the next agricultural policy framework. On behalf of the Canadian sheep industry, I'd like to thank you for the invitation to speak about

Agriculture committee  Is that the product or the livestock themselves?

Agriculture committee  The movement of livestock I shouldn't say is simple, but it's done frequently enough that it's figured out. Our transporters often will back-haul something else. They're very specific. They know the regulations. They meet all of those standards. Generally on the transport issue,

Agriculture committee  Yes, and I think that was part of the second point I was making. We need to find that less onerous federal inspection system for those who want to be able to produce the volume and put it into the retail stores, should that remain the mindset of those distributors to do it. At

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I'll just pick up where I left off, and again I apologize. Brevity has never been my forte in any way, shape, or form, so I'll try to do it faster. What we would like to see and what we have been working toward is finding some revisions to the temporary foreign work

Agriculture committee  That's a very good point. B.C. had a great model where the CFIA was helping in training and in providing inspection for the provincial government for some period of time. What evolved from that was a provincial inspection system that has almost equivalent standards. I think ther