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Agriculture committee  Well, I would echo what my colleague said. It's not just about selling to the United States. You have to remember the trade between our two countries is $10 billion. You have to remember that our country does not produce food 365 days a year, and we need that trade for all of our

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  I would say it all depends on the individual farmer's position with the bank. If you're a new farmer and have bought a $3-million farm and you're sitting on a heavy mortgage, you can have a great business idea that would make you lots of money outside of a claim, and the bank mig

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Yes. I think it's $100.

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  It depends. The claim could be 10% of their receivables or it could be 40% of their receivables. Really, how they'll be able to survive depends on the size of the claim. Some don't.

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Is that to me? It is a challenge. If I have to post a double bond, the tight cash flow on farms does make it a challenge. It would depend on every situation and it would depend on the amount of money. The double bonding process, compared to what we used to have, is absolutely a

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  I do not believe that.

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Respectfully, I truly believe this has been studied for a long time, and thoroughly. It keeps coming back to the deemed trust. There are other options that were looked at, and they are just not viable.

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you the importance of a Canadian-made deemed trust in relation to fruits and vegetables. This Canadian-made legislation would protect fruit and vegetable farmers and sellers within

May 16th, 2016Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  From what I'm familiar with, most of the packaging we have has on it “Product of Canada”, graded “No. 1”. You might have an address for where the packing house is or where the farm is where that product is coming from, to be able to tell if it's from Quebec, Manitoba, or Ontario.

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  It is. In Ontario, you have “Foodland Ontario”. You might have some cases where this is a voluntary thing for a local promotion and you have some people putting that Foodland Ontario symbol on their packaging, but that's not a requirement or anything.

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  The seed industry is a completely different industry. We're reliant on other companies outside of Canada, really, to produce seed for the majority of what we do. Again, there are a lot of differences if you're looking at getting stock for apple trees or vines for grapes. But if y

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik

Agriculture committee  Not to be making light of the situation, the mountains get in our way a little bit. It really is an interesting dynamic when you look at Canada as a whole, coming right across from British Columbia.... We rarely sell produce into British Columbia because of the logistics around t

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

Jason Verkaik