International Trade committee  No, he covered it.

International Trade committee  I said it earlier. The dairy sector aside, that's very troublesome to me as a Canadian citizen. We're in a trilateral deal with two other countries, and they're going to control what we do internationally. That's very troublesome. I can't imagine as this rolls out what other sect

International Trade committee  I do want to conclude with the export portion of this. I think it's unprecedented. It's very troublesome. If you think about any other sector, having a country within a trade agreement control them outside of that trade agreement, no matter what the commodity is—if it's any kind

International Trade committee  I think we had some information on that.

International Trade committee  If we use some historical numbers and we continue with those numbers, we'd be $10 million to $20 million in tariff.

International Trade committee  I don't think we've been there yet.

International Trade committee  Yes. I have just a couple of quick comments about imports of the milk that's coming in. Obviously, rbST is an issue. One other thing, which is a bit of an industry standard, is that the quality of milk in Canada is second to none. It's a worldwide standard. The U.S. has its own

International Trade committee  In a nutshell, I think the loss of 3.9% is our growth. Predicted growth over the next years might be in that neighbourhood. This is taking away our growth and giving it to somebody else. Effectively, that affects our future. That's troublesome for me. More importantly, on top of

International Trade committee  I think we see the future in the milk protein concentrates. I can't really speak of anything that's on the horizon right now, but.... It's different, it's innovative and it's what the world wants from us. It plays well into our current situation in Canada and North America, where

International Trade committee  Essentially, with a very low limit of 35,000 tonnes, it handcuffs us not only to our trading partners in the U.S. and Mexico, but also around the world. As far as we understand, we'll lose that market.

International Trade committee  It was well beyond the agreement of it. We weren't consulted on the export caps themselves, the size of the caps, nor the impact they would have. I think we may have been.... I'm going to pass this on to David because he was involved with this. We were briefed on it, not consul

International Trade committee  I would like to add to that. I agree with the direct payment as well. The reason is that innovation and investment are different on every farm. David alluded to that a little bit. In some cases, it's very new. In Saskatchewan, we have an entrant program, as does the rest of the

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Matthew Flaman. My wife, sons and I are fourth- and fifth-generation dairy farmers from Vibank, Saskatchewan, near Regina. Today I represent myself and 165 other dairy farmers in Saskatchewan. Thank you for the opportunity to offer my thought