International Trade committee  I'll bring some comments and I'll also turn to my counterpart, Mr. Destrijker, to add some. I'd say it's death by a thousand cuts. Support supply management. Support supply management. It's another piece of the pie back to everybody around this table. We're the carrot, either at

International Trade committee  I don't know the magic number when it stops working. All I do know is that when our young people stop coming back to the farm because they don't want to be involved.... My children say they don't want to be involved in a hog farm because there's really no future there. Thirty p

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Drouin. It's nice to see you, as always. We're able to keep the costs down because of our smaller farms and less risk of bird flu. In the U.S., when they get impacted, it's larger farms that are being hit. Facilities with three and a half million birds are being h

International Trade committee  Yes. A small farm in the U.S. would be one million birds. When the USDA looks at bird flu, they say that a backyard flock is something less than 500,000 birds.

International Trade committee  Yes, exactly. You're in the GTA. I'm down in Niagara, so my eggs are probably reaching the grocery store and you might be buying the eggs from my farm. In the domestic supply that we have in Canada, the average-size family farm is about 30,000 laying hens. In the U.S., you're t

International Trade committee  Yes, I would agree, for sure. We put out our first sustainability report a couple of years ago at Egg Farmers of Canada, and it talked about how we've reduced our water usage and land usage but have increased our capacity to produce eggs by more than 50% over that time.

International Trade committee  Thank you. Good day, Madam Chair, vice-chairs and members of the committee. My name is Roger Pelissero. I'm an egg farmer from Ontario and chair of Egg Farmers of Canada. With me today is Emmanuel Destrijker, who is an egg farmer from Quebec and second vice-chair of Egg Farmers

Agriculture committee  We're always concerned when there's an AI outbreak. In Canada, there are restrictive zones that are put in place and there are restrictive zones that you can't travel through. Are these trucks that are transporting the product to be shipped to the port travelling through those zo

Agriculture committee  On those mitigation packages and the compensation with CPTPP and CUSMA, our farmers are happy with what has been happening. It has taken a little longer to process some of it, but we understand the delays with COVID. The government did hold true on their promise. They did work wi

Agriculture committee  Yes. If you were to be identified as having AI at your farm.... The farmer would find it first, obviously, with the mortality that's hitting. It is quite devastating. Once the order is given, the farm is euthanized. All the hens on the farm are depopulated. It's a complete cleani

Agriculture committee  You know, I think there are always ways we can support those endeavours with the technology that we have here in North America and the practices that we have in our barns. I mean, the Ukrainians aren't a developing nation. They have a lot of good technology, too, to produce produ

Agriculture committee  We have different levels of food safety standards around the world. Even our counterparts in the U.S. meet our standards, if they're going to bring product into Canada. Salmonella testing is one of them. We test salmonella in our barns and environments. They test eggs. If you're

Agriculture committee  We haven't been consulted, so I guess I would say that there have been no guarantees. We don't know what the protocols or the surveillance system would be at all regarding eggs.

Agriculture committee  No, it hasn't.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. It is good to see you, Mr. Longfield. It's too bad it wouldn't be in person. It was great to have you at my farm that day. I have an open-door policy, if you want to visit an egg farm any time you're in the Niagara Peninsula. We could do eggs in the morning and go down