Agriculture committee  Actually, it's Jimmie Lamb ham.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we're Lambs who grow pigs.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to say that I have not, because I'm only provincially inspected. I don't get into the large retailers, where that is one of their criteria for getting on their shelves.

Agriculture committee  We aren't in the Sobeys and that. We would be in Pete's Frootique. We go and just sell directly to them. They've been great to work with.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to talk about two things. Number one, for our farm, because we direct market, we have not been impacted like life has for people who are isowean producers. For the isowean producers who were shipping into Quebec, those farms got backed up because they couldn't go into

Agriculture committee  That was referring to our business. We just were growing hogs at one point, which went into an abattoir that did the further processing and selling. We started selling a side of pork on a Saturday morning. We started doing ham and then bacon. After I retired from teaching aroun

Agriculture committee  I have no answer for you, my dear. We've been shaking our heads at it for a long time.

Agriculture committee  I think your openness to look at small, I'm going to say directed, investment that regionally...and that we can work together collaboratively to get as much food security in here as we can. I think some of it will be, can we work together as a region? The others...because New Bru

Agriculture committee  There certainly is, and I think Linda Best, as Kody will attest to, started work with FarmWorks, and they've invested capital into businesses such as even mine. We bought a slicer, a $32,000 used piece of equipment. Even funding where you can have used equipment and not always ha

Agriculture committee  The interesting part is, I can transport a live animal anywhere across Canada, so as far as taking that out I can do that. You just can't transport a dead animal across provincial borders without federal inspection. We need to bring meat in, so for our project it would be more ab

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  I don't think directly to farm loan. I know through Canadian Pork Council we have asked for government to work with agencies to have made-in-Canada pricing. It would look at pricing all across Canada for all pork producers regardless of province. Also, one of the other things is

Agriculture committee  To get into those institutions, your hospitals, your prisons, and so on, it has to be federally inspected. Unless there's legislation that changes that, I think there needs to be a will at each province, not just here, to say to these institutions that they can buy a certain perc

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Perron. It is actually one of the things that, when we have gone to government to speak to them.... Being a grandmother, I do not want to see my grandchildren saddled with debt, and my thought was always that we need long-term, low-interest loans in order to perso

Agriculture committee  There is none. At one point there was a federal inspection in all of the three provinces.