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March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee In the supplementary estimates?
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee That would be the federal share of money, the extra $55 million that's there. By and large, most of that money is for provincial programming, and that would represent our 60% share of the programming. Those dollars would largely be matched by the province, or 40% to 60%.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee We have increased a bit. I'm sorry I don't have the numbers with me—
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee —but we have increased somewhat over the last couple of years. There was some money in the 2018 fall economic statement that we used to beef that up. I think six or seven would be my rough estimate of the numbers, but it's in that range, and I think, overall, beefing up the trade
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee May I bring a colleague from the CFIA to the table? Is that fair?
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee This is Colleen Barnes from CFIA.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee There are a few points. I'll try to be concise. There is a wide range of challenges that we've faced. You've identified a few and your colleague did earlier. We try to look at the whole set of tools that we have to try to advance addressing them. In the case of market access fo
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I don't think they'd let me in.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Yes, we can submit it. I'll come back to that later.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I'll just say that those administrative costs have been fairly stable going back to at least 2013 or earlier. AgriStability is the most expensive program to run, as you said, at around 23% or 24%. It's something in that neighbourhood, depending on the year. That is high, or it
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Generally, I would say that.... Maybe the simple way to put it is that I think we had a very good run of six or seven years of good, strong increases in farm income across the country. You're still seeing in our export numbers overall, I would say, some strong revenue-side sales
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee My simple answer to the question is, yes, I think that's of interest. I think we need to more generally think about how we can, as you pointed out, recognize all the good environmental stewardship that producers undertake. They obviously have a vested interest in the sustainabili
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I'll try to answer this quickly and efficiently, but tell me if I get it wrong. We do have data on fuel usage and on energy usage on farms from Statistics Canada, which we've used as a way of modelling impacts. We could go into all the challenges and imprecisions of that. Certai
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes