Agriculture committee  Yes, the biggest concern probably is that there will be low-quality products somewhere, and they can't sell them where they are, so they dump it into Canada, and it just ruins the marketplace. Where we're selling top-quality stuff here and lower quality, lower price product comes

Agriculture committee  No, it doesn't cost anything. Just put the process in place. All the government will possess is the legislation, and then we can use the legislation. It's not like we want money from the government. We want enabling legislation for us to go forward and get paid. It's as simple as

Agriculture committee  We would like to see the TPP continue, even though the Americans aren't there. If we could negotiate a deal with all of those stakeholders at one time, that would work. If that breaks down, then it's all bilateral, and it will take more than forever. That's where we want to go wi

Agriculture committee  Yes. We were at a trade meeting the other day, and we all need each other.

Agriculture committee  It's so important because of the perishability. If we are ever stopped at the border in those old “hold and test” days.... If you have a load of lettuce at the border for three weeks, guess what? It's not going across.

Agriculture committee  As you know, we've been doing this for more than a decade. This time it was put in RCC, and then it was pulled out of RCC. We thought we had it made when the announcement was made in 2011 that the President and the Prime Minister said they were going to do it. It's as simple as

Agriculture committee  All right. A number of years ago our preferential treatment in the United States was taken away from us in PACA, so now we're just like any other country trading with the Americans. We need that to be resolved here so we can get that back in the U.S.

Agriculture committee  We're being told nothing. I'm not a politician. Apparently, when things go in cabinet confidence you're not allowed to talk about them, so we've been very patient, even though some of us are intensely impatient. It's been now a year since this committee recommended that you move

Agriculture committee  Further on fair market access, to keep Canadian fresh produce competitive here at home, we need to continue to have the support of anti-dumping rules, through the maintenance of ministerial exemptions. Fruits and vegetables are perishable crops that are stored under costly, high