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International Trade committee  We're close. Again, we'd have to get you the numbers. With all of the crushers and the various companies, we're close to running at capacity right now. One of the things the industry likes to do is to have the choice to export seed, oil and meal. They use it domestically, and the

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  You've raised a very interesting point. There's country diversification, but there's also product diversification. So I think there is an opportunity to look at products and diversifying.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  It's being led by the president of the CFIA, as you heard. That's deputy minister level. It would be supported by an ADM, as well as technical officials, both as directors or under. These are the people, and plant health experts—some of them are in the room behind me—who have bee

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  It would be comparable, if you look at it. They're very level conscious. We would meet similar levels.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  That's a good question. It is just the canola seed. As you indicated, there's also canola oil, and then there's canola meal. The only issues that we're having right now are with canola seed. Honestly, we export canola oil around the world, and we consume a lot of it in Canada, a

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  It's not being affected, sir.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  If it's a consumer-sized product.... People can look at it for other reasons, but, I mean, anything can be looked at from a food safety point of view. Even in Canada—

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  Yes, I think I understand the nature of your question. I would say that a prepackaged consumer product is stable, and it's usually considered safe.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  We can get you the numbers, but I think the numbers that you identified, the 4.8 million tonnes relative to our seed and the $1.1 billion of oil.... That oil demand has been going up over the years, as has the demand for our seed.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  In the regular course of business there are always issues in trading, but we have nothing in the context of what we're talking about here with China.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  That's correct.

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  I think, obviously, the Chinese importers, the Japanese importers the Mexican importers are all looking at it from a contractual point of view as well. We, the government, don't know the contracts between the companies and the importers, but they have signalled very clearly that

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

International Trade committee  I think they're having the first meeting on Thursday, or first call relative to that. I think Minister Carr identified that they're going to be looking at what programs could be needed by the farmers, and at diversification. I think they would also be looking.... I forget, Steve

April 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell