International Trade committee  It makes us more competitive, obviously. In Saskatchewan we spend 40% of our budget—this is money that we get from our 26,000 canola producers across Saskatchewan—straight on R and D. We have a leverage capacity of about five, so for every dollar we bring in, we can leverage anot

International Trade committee  I might also add that I was just in Colombia for a couple of weeks, and the poverty I saw really affected me. I had never seen poverty like that before. What I thought was interesting is that I also see them as being really influenced by media and what happens here in North Amer

International Trade committee  I might add that this gives us strong play for your market access secretariat. We work very closely with government. It will often be us bringing forward issues, but we have strong support for the secretariat and the work they do going out to the other countries.

International Trade committee  Well, certainly CETA is very important for us, with our trade with Europe. Korea is another one that's an emerging market. India is another emerging market for us that we're looking at. Those would be some of the top ones. As well, in TPP there's Malaysia. Malaysia is another on

International Trade committee  Yes, that's what we did, with some extrapolations. For canola, if you consider the value-added processing that would be gained, right now in Saskatchewan we have a Cargill plant that crushes 4,500 tonnes per day and employs about 100 people. We know there are 14 crushing plants

International Trade committee  We took a quick look yesterday. There are no specific numbers, but we did some extrapolations.