Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. I'd really like to get away from the demarcation between low-skilled and high-skilled, because with the types of machinery out there now, which not everybody uses but most farmers do, people are working with global positioning systems, with electronics.

Agriculture committee  More people are going to be needed, but I would disabuse everyone from this notion of the stereotypical traditional farmhand, because as technology advances, technological skills are required for the workers on these farms. I wouldn't begin to categorize those people as low-skill

Agriculture committee  I agree completely. I've been lucky enough to be part of the National Farmers Union since the mid-nineties. It wasn't actually me who joined. It was my partner after she had moved to the farm. She joined because Nettie Wiebe, a woman, was president of the National Farmers Union

Agriculture committee  On the recommendations, I'm pleased that they are a priority in that Calgary statement. The only recommendation I have is to proceed on the basis of regulation, which follows from adequate and good testing. The problem that Mr. Shipley alluded to before is that the natural world

Agriculture committee  Sure. Thanks very much for the question. I think most people understand that this year in Saskatchewan there's a serious situation with a disease of not just wheat but grain, called fusarium, and a related disease that comes about because of fusarium. It may well be the first ye

Agriculture committee  There's been a steady evolution of these types of safety-net programs and income stabilization programs dating back to the seventies. The program that the previous Liberal government had was very helpful. There's no program that's going to keep a farmer in business forever if the

Agriculture committee  Not me personally but the National Farmers Union is, and I believe the farmers union is going to present here again this morning on the topic.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for the invitation to be here this morning. I'm appearing here today to relate the views of the National Farmers Union regarding one of the areas within the national policy framework that is under consideration, specifically the area of social licenc