International Trade committee  I'll turn this over to Fawn. We looked into that just this morning.

International Trade committee  I think it enhances our ability to trade with any place. If we're having trouble trading with our closest neighbour, how does any other country in the world think they can trade with us?

International Trade committee  It's not a threat at all, no.

International Trade committee  Exactly, without COOL.

International Trade committee  From the beef perspective, the important thing is stability of the markets and getting it going. We live in a pretty unstable world where trade is concerned, and this is an opportunity to stabilize that. That's what we're looking for. For beef we're basically at the same place we

International Trade committee  Thank you, and good afternoon. My name's Bob Lowe and I'm a rancher and feedlot operator in southern Alberta. I'm also the current vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, the national voice of Canada's 60,000 beef operations. I'll just add a little correction. Wi

International Trade committee  We want not low-skilled labour, but agriculturally skilled labour. The example that I can use is one of the two major plants in Canada. They're both pretty close to my operation. One of them would like commercial butchers. They can't get commercial butchers. They aren't worried a

International Trade committee  As for the value add, as John said a while ago, our biggest question from other countries is, “How come you don't produce more beef?” Well, we want to produce more beef, and we have the ability and the land to produce more beef, but what we don't have is the labour, for one thing

International Trade committee  No. A lot of it is developed here.

International Trade committee  Sure. I guess the words we're looking for is we know it's there. If this gets ratified by all three countries before the fall calf run, as an industry, we know that it's there. We know we can count on it. We know we have the U.S. for our market. I said in here somewhere—and thi

International Trade committee  Good morning. I would like to thank the committee for allowing us to speak to it. My name is Bob Lowe. I'm a rancher and feedlot operator in southern Alberta. I'm also the current vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, the national voice of Canada's 60,000 beef

International Trade committee  It was a perfect spring for it.