International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  What we're seeing is that this is what the government had to give to make the deal. That's not our job. Our concern is that it has an effect on dairy farmers' revenue. We would like to see no further access given. Canadian farmers want to produce milk for Canadians, and Canadians

International Trade committee  The problem is logistics. If I'm a small Canadian farmer, everyone is looking for volume. I can't afford to meet standards. I can't afford your export requirements, import requirements, or licensing for a small volume. That's an issue for the smaller processors like we see here o

International Trade committee  The capital consumption in Japan is very small. Japan also has a protected dairy market. The opportunity for exporting dairy to Japan is not substantial. It's a niche market, but there is very little potential in dairy.

International Trade committee  Any time that you take jobs from a rural economy, it has a dramatic effect. There's not another job. You're not in downtown Toronto where there's probably another job to be had. If the job in the dairy farm is gone, the people are gone also. It has a ripple effect most certainly

International Trade committee  We've worked through our national organization, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, of course, which has been very involved. Mr. Ritz has seen our faces a number of times in his former portfolio. We've been continuing to work with the present government on an ongoing basis. That's a nat

International Trade committee  The processing plant in Sussex is Dairytown. It's a powder plant. It's 50 years old. It is the plant of last resort in the Atlantic provinces. It is past its prime, of course, and we need a new plant to handle the surplus milk that we have at certain times of the year, as well as

International Trade committee  What I've just said is that the opportunity there is in the ingredients. Mr. Ritz talked about opportunities as far as the cheese goes. Cheese is our main product here on Prince Edward Island, and we are looking at opportunities in that market for specialty cheese. There's also t

International Trade committee  Right. What I would recommend in that case is to work with the U.S. If the U.S. walked away, I would work with the U.S. on that and I'd probably reignite our FTA discussions with Japan. I think that would put pressure on the other 10 signatories to take a harder look at what's go

International Trade committee  I'm sorry, that's 1,700 tonnes of industrial cheese and 16,000 tonnes of fine cheese.

International Trade committee  After the TPP negotiations were concluded in October 2015, in order to ensure no negative impact on Canadian dairy farmers as a combined result of CETA and TPP.... On compensation for supply management farmers for their losses as a result of TPP, the Government of Canada announce

International Trade committee  That's basically the bottom line. The other information is that we have 168 dairy farms here on Prince Edward Island. We're talking about losing on average 74 cows. What this will mean is that we have 10 farms that will be out of business because of the loss of milk sales on Pri

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. My name is Ron Maynard. I am a dairy farmer from Prince Edward Island, and I'm the secretary of the Dairy Farmers of Prince Edward Island. The Dairy Farmers of Prince Edward Island is pleased to appear in front of the committee. It is important to emphasize