Agriculture committee  Certainly. Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Epp. With response to the first part of your question in terms of whether or not we feel we've been heard, I think that grain growers across the country wanted to be seen as active participants in this important discussion. Th

Agriculture committee  With respect to gene editing and other similar tools around modern agriculture, increasingly now and especially around climate change, we need to ensure that Canadian farmers have the tools in their tool box to address the situations and challenges that they're facing increasingl

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the invitation to address all of you today on this topic of importance to farmers, to Canadians and to the world. It is very nice to have the opportunity to see many of your faces in person now. Thank you for that. My name is Erin

Agriculture committee  No, we don't have any indication, at this point right now, about what to expect, Mr. MacGregor, for the portion of the rebate. Of course, naturally we have some concerns about some additional administrative costs that may be associated with the rebate. That's why, even despite

Agriculture committee  Sure, I can speak to that. I think with respect to grain prices, certainly they fluctuate. It really depends on the commodity and the market in which you're selling. Certainly some of our growers have faced some significant market access issues, depending on markets around the

Agriculture committee  I would probably like to see if my director, Mr. Hodson, was able to get the interpretation of that question so he could respond, if I may.

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. MacGregor. With respect to any carbon tax, and in this discussion in particular, it's really about whether the bill is meeting its intended objective, which is to ultimately incentivize practice change. With this tax, we want to encourage, for exampl

Agriculture committee  Just to add to Mr. Hodson's comments, I think that if there were a form of energy available as an alternative to natural gas or propane, farmers would be all over it. There's a significant cost, as Mr. Hodson indicated, associated with purchasing the natural gas and propane for d

International Trade committee  Thank you. I don't know why we haven't brought it to the WTO. I know the industry has been calling on the Canadian government to do just that—to your point specifically, Mr. Hoback—because we want to see a resolution of this issue, and that has a direct and immediate impact on t

International Trade committee  Sure. I'm Erin Gowriluk, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada. This is a really important issue and one that the industry has been calling on the federal government, on the Canadian government, to take to the WTO for a couple of reasons. One of the more obvious r

Agriculture committee  You're asking me a more technical question about the program, and I'm going to defer to my expert, Mr. Harpe, who has used the program in the past.

Agriculture committee  With respect to the committee's study on business risk management, I think one of the reasons you're hearing consistently from a variety of different associations and different stakeholders and commodities around this one particular ask for AgriStability is that it provides targe

Agriculture committee  I'm going to invite my director Andre Harpe to speak to this as well, in terms of how that has shifted. Certainly from hearing from our members, I know there was an acceptance when the changes were made that the changes at the time were appropriate, in 2013. That acceptance no

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Andre. Thank you, committee members. I will quote a very recent research paper from Kerri Holland at the University of Calgary's Simpson Centre for Agriculture and Food Innovation. In her report entitled “Canada's Food Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, she st

Agriculture committee  It's both, in that we're seeking an increase from the 70% to 85%, and we're seeking removal of the reference margin limit as well. As I said in my remarks, that one is fairly consistent among all sectors across the industry.