International Trade committee  I have just two quick questions. First, Mr. Newman, I want to double-check your numbers here. You said you had budgeted for a certain price of $11 a bushel, and now it's closer to $9. You were saying your per-acre profit was budgeted to be about $115 per acre, and now you're dow

International Trade committee  To go from a profit margin that you were hoping would be around $115 and that is now down to $14 is pretty narrow.

International Trade committee  We had Mr. McClean earlier talking about what having to expand his storage would cost him. I did the quick math and it would be $450,000, just if he wasn't able to move his canola crop, which I'm assuming would erase any of that $14 an acre that you might get just with what you s

International Trade committee  I have one last question before I pass the floor to my colleague. Mr. Hanmer, you were saying you have a crop input retail company. I've had calls from some of my implement dealerships. Cervus in High River is one. They have had their producers cancel equipment sales. These are

International Trade committee  Thank you. I'm going to pass the floor to Mr. Maguire.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Sopuck. Mr. Sheehan, we've tried more than a dozen times to get unanimous consent for an emergency debate in the House on the canola crisis. Each and every time, the Liberals have turned us down. The Conservatives understand how important this issue is,

International Trade committee  You said that when your shipments left Canada, they were tested and everything was clean, and then they get to China. Do these ships stop anywhere between Vancouver and China? Can anything happen en route that would change the results of those tests?

International Trade committee  Thank you. Just very quickly to Bernie McClean, thank you very much for coming. You talked really quickly about storage. Even on the advance payments program, you still have to pay that back. What would it cost you to increase your storage on your farm to try to store canola

International Trade committee  That's good math; I appreciate that. That again goes to the urgency of this situation. I think there's a misconception that we're talking about canola that you're going to be harvesting this fall coming up. We're actually talking about a commodity that's already been harvested th

International Trade committee  Sorry. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to clarify something on Mr. Fonseca's question about previous mistakes. This came from the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Geng Shuang, when asked specifically about Ms. Meng. His complete comment was: As for China-Canada relation

International Trade committee  Yes, and I appreciate that. I think our best solution is to repair the relationship with China, with whatever means that takes. I appreciate that we're looking at a multi-pronged approach—scientific and, hopefully, political as well. I did ask the question of the ministers, but

International Trade committee  Thank you for that, Minister. We have heard today that Richardson and Viterra have had their permits revoked. We also learned today that a third company is in jeopardy of having its permit revoked. Do we know which company that is? My concern here is that our stakeholders and

International Trade committee  Do we know of other commodities that may be targeted? We have heard that with commodities other than canola, China is not signing new contracts.