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Agriculture committee As you know, the government is reviewing both the seasonal agricultural worker program and some aspects of the temporary foreign worker program that pertain to agriculture and some of the processing sector needs. From our standpoint at Agriculture Canada, obviously the responsibi
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I'm not sure of the 48%. Why don't we look into that for you? That seems a bit much, unless I'm missing something in the supplementaries versus the....
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Christine, do you want to talk about the 48%? Then I'll come back to the overall direction.
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Whatever farmers need will be paid out.
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee If I can step back, it's a review of the full set of BRM. It's not just AgriStability.
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee It has a lot of interest from folks, but there are others, such as AgriRecovery and AgriInsurance, that are significant expenditures. We did have a report from the panel to FPT ministers in the summer. They came with a few recommendations. Some of it was about finding more priva
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I think you make an excellent point. Under the agricultural partnership with the provinces, we do work together. Environment and climate change are one of the priorities. I'll make a couple of points in that regard. Carbon sequestration and carbon emissions are a big part of th
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I don't know if we've gone that specific—
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Let me just tell you quickly about the kind of stuff we've done. We have worked with the food processing industry round table. It's a sector round table that we bring together to look at some of the costs associated with the proposals—for example, the proposals around front-of-pa
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee What we try to do—sorry, Chair—is just make sure that the information flows both ways. The sector's information and what they see as the impacts are brought to the attention of our colleagues. Similarly, the processes and priorities and the understanding of our colleagues are com
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee In the statement, obviously a number of specific regulatory commitments were laid out in terms of priorities for officials and for the government to get through. Timelines will vary from item to item. You raised the example of the plants with novel traits. We are engaging with th
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Let me jump in for a moment, Jaspinder. To your point about what came out in the statement, I would say a couple of things. We heard a lot about how to get more external voices talking about regulation and how to think more about economic issues when we look at regulation. You
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Generally, the commercialization of products will come within industry. We're not in the business of commercialization generally. We do have programming that goes a bit to that side, not necessarily with our own innovations, but we do have programming that supports that.
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Thank you.
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee The Agricultural Growth Act...? I'm not sure I—
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Forbes