Agriculture committee  We have the round tables that Agriculture Canada supports. Canada is part of the grains round table, and it's an excellent organization, again because it's a collaborative thing. You have government and industry there and you can talk through all the common issues we have, such a

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  I've talked about the development of varieties that suit specific agronomic conditions in Canada and specific end user requirements in our markets. The same is true on the feed side, where you're looking for digging deeper into how a protein product like soybean performs in diffe

Agriculture committee  Mr. Anderson is right about costing things out and making priorities clear. I understand that point, and I don't know the CFIA environment really well in terms of how resources are allocated within it. We see there is a very important issue around domestic safety and so on, and C

Agriculture committee  I would say two things. I'd say that international demand for some of our products is really growing, so that's driving the market, but I would also say that innovation is growing as well. Taking the example of our food-grade export market, our niche in the market is quality. Ot

Agriculture committee  That would be Asia, for the most part. What's very exciting about the work that we're doing with CAFTA and the TPP and so on is that so many Asian countries are interested in joining with the TPP. Now there are several that are involved, other countries like South Korea, Indonesi

Agriculture committee  We are very hopeful that there can be some investment in western Canada in processing. There are three significantly sized processing facilities in eastern Canada. Two are in Ontario, and one is near Trois-Rivières, Quebec. That's really good. They are doing well. Their crush is

Agriculture committee  I don't have acreage in mind right now for soybeans in Atlantic Canada, but they are grown in all the Atlantic Canada provinces. There is real opportunity in going to ports that are close by. In Ontario, that's the story of the competitive advantage. You can truck almost all the

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. About 25% of what we export in soybeans goes to China. It's a really important market for us. We're indebted to the government and the minister for leading this mission to China. It's an important market to go to, and being there with the minister and the de

Agriculture committee  It's a place where it's very difficult to understand how decisions are made. That would be my answer.

Agriculture committee  From an agricultural policy framework point of view, it's a relatively new area. It wasn't a big part of the Growing Forward 2 set of programs, as I see it. I think we as a nation are going to be contributing to the global effort on climate change. It's going to require change

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  We compete in the soy bean sector directly with the U.S. The numbers come from my counterpart in the United States, the United States Soybean Export Council, which grows 110 million tonnes of soybean, so they're much larger. They have $12 million in support coming directly from t

Agriculture committee  To answer your other question, first of all, we tried in our opening statements to talk about priority areas where government can provide support, particularly on market access issues, because government negotiates trade agreements and government has the institutions that can rea

Agriculture committee  I would add that I think it is a little about resources, as I indicated in the presentation, especially around science and technical issues. The other thing I would stress is that Canada can really help in a leadership role, by ensuring that our major science-based international