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International Trade committee Thank you very much for the invitation to appear before the committee and for your continued attention to international market access for Canadian beef. The last time we were here talking about implementing the Canada-Europe agreement, we advised that the establishment of new ma
May 11th, 2017Committee meeting
Dan Darling
International Trade committee First of all, before we threw our support behind CETA, we consulted with our producers and their representatives from their provincial organizations to make sure that they were supportive of new access. Of course, they all were, under conditions of meaningful access, in that we g
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
International Trade committee Sure. Thank you for the question. First of all, in the agriculture sector for the beef producers, when you put another buyer on the market, it's going to drive the price up. It's going to drive the price up and it's going to find a market for products that we don't value here or
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
International Trade committee That's the good news. The concern we have now is to convert this immense potential into real trade. There are critical food hygiene procedures used in Canadian meat production to ensure that consumers are not exposed to potentially harmful bacteria such as E. coli. Unfortunatel
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
International Trade committee Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee and for your continued attention to international market access for Canadian agriculture. The committee will be aware that Canadian beef producers have faced their fair share of trade barriers. I am pleased to say that
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee There's nothing sexy about working on the kill floor, that's for sure. Certainly our biggest issue is finding enough workers for our plants, and skilled workers. That's something that I think is forgotten. There is a skill to disassembling a carcass and doing it in the right way
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee We need to keep working with the temporary foreign worker program. There are a lot of skilled workers who are coming in from other countries who have always worked well on our behalf. I always say that in Canada we are fortunate enough to want better for our kids. That means th
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee Certainly I would agree that there need to be more resources put toward that. The number of issues they're dealing with are issues they have to deal with. If there were more resources, there would be more help to deal with them and they could pinpoint more crucial ones to deal wi
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee That's probably a good question. I'd like to know that information myself, because it's not made available to us.
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee That would be a CFIA thing. They would have to answer that question. I don't know if they have the resources to test the beef and the veal that have now been approved to come in here or not. It's certainly a concern.
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee I agree 100%. That's exactly what it is. Our Canadian products are overwhelmingly much safer than the European products. The technical issues that we are being stopped on in trying to gain access into Europe just make our product a lot safer. It stems from the fact that in Euro
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. My name is Dan Darling. My family and I farm and raise cattle near Castleton, Ontario. I am currently president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. On behalf of Canada's 68,500 beef producers, we are pleased to share our
November 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee On CETA, no, those technical issues have not been resolved yet. Yes, we continue to work at them and certainly hope that in the very near future those technical issues will be resolved, because, barring the resolution of those technical issues, Canada's beef producers cannot gain
April 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee Canada sets high standards for animal care. I'm probably not the best person to talk about what other countries can do, but that's why we have the CFIA. The CFIA and our other government agencies are well-equipped to ensure that the animal and products coming back and forth are
April 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling
Agriculture committee One of the reasons beef prices have drastically gone up is the short supply of beef. The biggest reason there's a short supply of beef is that there's been no profitability in the industry for our producers. As I said before, there's been a huge retraction of the cattle herd. Wi
April 18th, 2016Committee meeting
Dan Darling