Agriculture committee  I think it's a good example of how to use the university system across this country and support the universities. Put more centres like that at the University of B.C. and in Ontario and at Guelph—all of those. It's an opportunity. If the federal government wants to put money towa

Agriculture committee  I think processing in the new plants will have to be really in remote parts of this country. When we talk about broadband in a province like Saskatchewan.... A town of 2,000 people might be considered a hamlet in Ontario, for instance, but it's a major trading hub in our province

Agriculture committee  A simple one would be just a standardization of regulations between the provinces and the federal government. If the province of Saskatchewan has an approved facility, there should be a fast track to get interprovincial trade. It can even begin just on adjacent provinces and then

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's correct. It checks a lot of different boxes, if you want to put it that way, for animal welfare and so on. The animals are travelling shorter distances to processing, so that's just an example of one of the advantages of smaller—

Agriculture committee  It's just that I think offshore product coming into Canada really affects Canadian producers. It's important that we keep that production in Canada and use it for Canadians.

Agriculture committee  Well, I think it's probably not much unlike what Ms. Stafford talked about on Vancouver Island. The small abattoirs in Saskatchewan also disappeared because they couldn't compete. The large CFIA-approved slaughter facilities in Alberta get most of the cattle. Because of that, tha

Agriculture committee  I think we need to see increased rail capacity. It's ongoing. As we have higher and higher production models and opportunities, I think we need to see more and more rail capacity. It's important. Port capacity is another issue, certainly. The Port of Vancouver is getting full. T

Agriculture committee  Yes, since COVID we've had increased capacity for grain movement. We've had record movement over the last number of months, but at the same time, as the economy starts to recover, we're going to see loss of some of that capacity. It's going to go to other products. The grain se

Agriculture committee  I guess I would just.... The thought was that we end up with heavily subsidized offshore product coming into Canada, and it really displaces Canadian product that should be available within the borders of our country. All of this is about food security, really, for the entire cou

Agriculture committee  No, I'm not.

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Agriculture committee  I think what producers are looking for from their governments.... The China situation has been very difficult for our national government, especially with the two Michaels situation. Those are people's lives hanging in the balance there, so I think farmers have been very patient

Agriculture committee  We see the Infrastructure Bank, tools like that, which could be used to provide loans to smaller processors, beginning processors. It can't just be about the big companies being able to move in and set up shop. It's also local processors. That's how they become bigger, if they ca

Agriculture committee  I think just a good base of programming. Right now, AgriStability is not good for any farmer, young or old. I think good programs will help all farmers and especially attract new entrants, because that's what we're going to need, new entrants. The next generation are the people..

Agriculture committee  I touched lightly on transportation. We're going to need a different transportation system. Something as simple as crushed canola oil requires tanker cars, not grain cars. That's an example there. If we are going to process more canola in the Prairies, we're going to need oil tan