Agriculture committee  Do you want a concrete example? It's really a sector that is also of great interest. I think that when we roll out the food policy and especially promote Canadian products, there will be something very interesting to do with them. Did you have something else to add?

Agriculture committee  It goes a lot with the leadership of the industry and the specific region. I'm always hopeful that we will have it. You just talked about the value chain working group. It makes me think that it's important to have more processors in Canada. I think we are exporting too much ra

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Definitely. Minister Carr would obviously be more eloquent on this, but having signed the partnership agreement and the agreement with Europe opens up doors for us, particularly since we are among the first six to sign the partnership agreement. We really have to take advantage o

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry. Could you...?

Agriculture committee  It has been a priority since day one. You have waited six weeks to ask a question at question period.

Agriculture committee  I already told you that I didn't talk to him.

Agriculture committee  I haven't had the opportunity to have a conversation with him.

Agriculture committee  We have a chargé d'affaires who is very experienced, and we have daily conversations with the Chinese on the canola situation. We have decided not to start a process with the WTO, because we don't think it's the right moment to do such a thing.

Agriculture committee  We are monitoring the situation, getting advice and thinking about it with the working group as well, because we value the thoughts of our partners.

Agriculture committee  Once again, you have chosen your indicators, but we don't believe that those you have chosen are the right actions to proceed with. I encourage you to speak with the people representing our farmers, such as those in the working group. I believe they will tell you that we are ther

Agriculture committee  I have worked more on the one for the partnership agreement than for CETA, so no, I'm not prepared to give you a clear answer now, but I would be pleased to come back to you.

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Chinese authorities informed us that two pork exporters' permits had been suspended. I want to clarify that this happened for administrative reasons. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is working with the two companies to find a solution. This kind of th

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, what is going on with the pork industry is an administrative issue. I am confident that we will find a solution very rapidly. Conservatives keep playing little politics. I would like the House to know that today we have learned that the Leader of the Opposition is r

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, we have been talking about this matter and doing something about it for exactly two months now. We are in contact with the Chinese authorities. Our representatives there are in daily contact with Chinese authorities. We have regular meetings with a working group beca