Agriculture committee  Do you mean in the provinces?

Agriculture committee  Farming is one of the essentials for this country, so on a personal use, I don't see any...because it's limited: you're talking about one animal or two animals.

Agriculture committee  Well, I prefer Canadian pork, but if I can't get Canadian pork I'll buy American pork. My first choice is Canadian pork, but if the abattoirs can't supply it.... Some of the abattoirs, because of their mix of foreign trade to Canadian—we can't eat all the meat that we produce h

Agriculture committee  For me not only is it important on a competitive basis, but it's important that we secure our food safety. In this country we've experienced it. We've experienced it with human lives and monetarily. It's a question of having one regulatory body. On your point, I'm all for small

Agriculture committee  In Laval I have 250.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Well, we buy from Canada.

Agriculture committee  I have to use all federally inspected meat. My beef comes from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Agriculture committee  I have bought from those two abattoirs.

Agriculture committee  Their products are very good.

Agriculture committee  I think that Canadian pork is the best in the world.

Agriculture committee  I don't use temporary foreign workers because I am in an urban area. The reality is that Canadians don't want to do this work. We have only immigrants in my plant. It is very rare to see a second-generation Canadian doing that kind of work. So I never have enough staff. A shorta

Agriculture committee  Or train them to be a CFIA. You know, I'm a businessman. When you have a food safety issue, let's say the Maple Leaf listeria problem, my business dropped to 10%. In Ontario it was even more. You've got to spend it at one end or the other. If we do have safety issues in this coun

Agriculture committee  In my experience, you're right, there are some good plants there, and abattoirs. We talk about abattoirs and processors. I'm a further processor, which is a little bit different—I cook, I ferment—and there's a lot of regulation on that part. In Quebec we have small businesses whe