International Trade committee  Canada was sort of the first out the gate to develop an LLP policy for grain, so Canada's really leading the world in that respect. We are very thankful for that, and hopefully, that will be established as a basis worldwide.

International Trade committee  We don't know the exact number of how many jobs would be created, but we do know that as exports increase and more products are being produced, more people have to be employed. The seed industry has increased exponentially in employment numbers over the past number of years.

International Trade committee  With all due respect to our Teamsters friends, agriculture and agrifood processing is the largest manufacturing sector in Canada. It surpasses auto and aerospace combined. Canadians do export agriculture goods to Europe, to Japan, and to all those markets, and Canadian agricultur

International Trade committee  Thanks. Yes, exports are extremely important to our members, again, in excess of.... They are probably a low conservative of $450 million, but more like $550 million. Those are the last numbers we have from Agriculture Canada for the seed side. We see trade as a good thing. We i

International Trade committee  Thanks for the question. Yes, on the LLP side it has been touched on, but essentially it spells out in article 2.27 on the trade of products in modern biotechnology, that there's a transparent process to deal with LLP issues, and that provides predictability. We sometimes have

International Trade committee  Thank you, Dan, and my thanks to the committee for having us here today. Seed generally trades with zero or very low tariffs, and many of the TPP countries do not bind or apply any tariffs on seed for sowing. While this is an advantage for our commodity type, we experience issu