Agriculture committee  Has the Government of Canada seen, or have you seen, a copy of the U.S. federal order that was drafted?

Agriculture committee  No. We had a series of updates and very little engagement until just the last week or two. We were informed of the decision when it was made.

Agriculture committee  I don't know the answer to that. I believe they still farm that land. It's still in agricultural production—

Agriculture committee  I can't answer that. I don't know that for sure.

Agriculture committee  I thought maybe they still planted starch potatoes in some of that land, but I guess I don't know for sure.

Agriculture committee  The management plan is a CFIA plan. It's a federal government plan. In that plan, after many, many years, once it's found that the field is pest-free or below a certain threshold, they can plant potatoes in those fields, but we have started an initiative to eliminate all the inde

Agriculture committee  I guess I'll ask you a question, Mr. Morrissey. How do you know they were going to put a U.S. federal order in place?

Agriculture committee  I live here. I work for these folks. It's dire through our whole community. A question was asked earlier about 2023, which I didn't answer. It's unacceptable. We have warehouses full of potatoes right now. They don't know what to do with those potatoes, let alone know what to pla

Agriculture committee  I was just saying that folks are contemplating whether to continue or not. They may not be able to financially, but some are then deciding that they can't.... It's hard farming as it is, with the weather and all the uncertainties, but this is a government-made issue. It's just un

Agriculture committee  I think you've pretty much covered all of the people who are attending it. I just want to say that our farmers do not want to dump and waste potatoes. We have been shipping loads of potatoes to British Columbia, right across the country, and we'll continue to do that. Farmers d

Agriculture committee  We had about 21 countries that we exported to, but given the way this has been handled and communicated by CFIA, we have lost a number of those markets. I don't know where we can go internationally to get more markets. This is about 10,000 truckloads of potatoes. It's a massive p

Agriculture committee  It would be that if they have confidence in their own plan and the plan that they have agreed on with the U.S., the plan will work exactly the way it's supposed to. They would project confidence that they have this, that they've got this. That's what changed the most this year. T

Agriculture committee  Yes. Our potatoes are perfectly good. I want to give an example. We talk about sprout inhibition. I think the U.S. exports upwards of $220 million worth of fresh potatoes to Japan. Idaho, as pointed out earlier in presentations, has a quarantinable pest. The same mitigation measu

Agriculture committee  Just as a clarification, $60 million in total is what we requested. The funding announced yesterday would provide up to $21 million that could go directly to the producers. Waiting—

Agriculture committee  The Netherlands is the world's leader in exportation of seed potatoes. That region, northwestern Europe, has had potato wart since the 1900s. They've been managing the disease through identification of pest-free areas—as has been done similarly in P.E.I.—and other management tech