Agriculture committee  Thank you for that question. We are not climate deniers. We recognize that we need to address this. However, what we're suggesting is that whatever is done be aligned with our biggest trading partner. If the United States and Canada can agree on the approach, we're not disrup

Agriculture committee  Absolutely, yes.

Agriculture committee  While I'm not an expert in that area, I can make some cursory comments. I do hear from our crop protection folks at the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers' Association and the Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada that investment in the PMRA and PMC to deal with the upcoming

Agriculture committee  I might react to that. Thanks for the question. I'm not sure exactly what that would mean, but I would suggest that whatever it would mean, we should have some level of alignment between ourselves and the United States. We should not be dealing with this as Canada alone. We saw

Agriculture committee  I would suggest that it probably went along the lines of the fact that we're producing food.

Agriculture committee  Can I respond by saying that there's a third?

Agriculture committee  That's where that investment will move to a jurisdiction that will not have those policies. In this case, the greenhouse sector, as you probably heard in my testimony, has exhibited a great deal of growth in the last 20 years. I can say that the United States of America is acti

Agriculture committee  I don't know the answer to the part about the transportation piece, but on the production side, in my testimony I offered up that on the production base, we don't have any insurance scheme for greenhouse vegetables, so that is a gap. As far as the costs are concerned on what you

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. We've been working with the CPMA on this matter. It had a study done by Deloitte, which estimates that the cost of the goods will increase by roughly 34%. The availability of fresh produce will decrease. It will be cut by 50%. Food waste will also inc

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to present to you today on behalf of the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers. I am here today with Mr. Richard Lee, our executive director. OGVG represents over 170 greenhouse vegetable growers across the pro

International Trade committee  If I can comment on ours, it would be all three of our products. I think that's because of the quality, the food safety, and traceability aspects. From our investigations over there, we've seen a great desire for imports there. The foreign competition that we would see there woul

International Trade committee  We're continuing to need a good source of labour, right from, as I said, the people picking the crops all the way through the value chain. We are challenged with that right now and we need the ultimate flexibility and the programming that government can offer on the human resourc

International Trade committee  Yes, we've been pursuing those strategies because we have a total dependency on the North American marketplace right now, and we need to protect ourselves and diversify those markets. As far as the PACA thing goes, though, Mr. Ritz, you relate it to federal-provincial relations,

International Trade committee  Trucking is becoming a problem for our sector. One of the things here is that our members have control of a lot of their internal logistics as well, so they've got many of their own trucks. But with drivers, there is going to be a problem. Getting the adequate human resources to

International Trade committee  I think I heard two questions there.