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Agriculture committee Absolutely.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee Thank you for asking me, and I'll even give you some exclusive news. We were able to add $10 million to the $77.5 million in emergency assistance for processors.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee We are following this very closely.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee I understood two different questions in your question. The compensation is put in place to compensate for the loss of market. This has been evaluated following the work of the working group and the work of our team here at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. We came to this amount
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee It's the first compensation program we've put in place. It provided $250 million to dairy producers and $100 million to processors to help them invest in order to be more productive, among other things. I had the information somewhere on how many projects we were able to support
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee My technical English on this file is a bit weaker.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee I wouldn't say it increased, because with the controls we have put in place in recent years, it has decreased. As I said, this is a sector that we have asked the Canada Border Services Agency to focus on. We are investing in additional means to control it. You know that we have t
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee I will reach out to him, I think, when he is confirmed. I am very confident that the way we are proceeding with the TRQs is respecting our agreement with the United States, and we will follow the process. We will go through the consultation, and I'm very confident that we are do
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee You should not be concerned. We have already made a lot of progress with the working group after the CPTPP was signed, and we already have a good idea of what they want—investment programs and marketing support. We will meet with them next week to update everything, and that wil
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee Absolutely. When I talk about processors, I am talking about all processors of products subject to the supply management of poultry, dairy and eggs.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee You will recall that, in summer 2019, we committed to provide compensations over eight years. We recognize that our dairy producers need predictability. That is why we focused that commitment over four years instead of over eight years. We want to give them that predictability.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee I do.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Ng and I have been very strong on this commitment.
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee Of course, we are following what comes through the border as closely as we can. With the act and the regulations around safe food for Canadians, we have increased our capacity and requirements to ensure that what comes in does meet Canadian standards. You might also be talking a
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal
Agriculture committee Yes, it's spent fowl. I can tell you that this is one of the priorities that we have asked the border services to look at. We are also investing in ways to be able to tell the difference based on science, because it's not necessarily obvious. We have to develop the tools to contr
December 10th, 2020Committee meeting
Marie-Claude BibeauLiberal