Agriculture committee  No, there is still way too much chicken being produced in this country. The producers will not cut back their supply because when they cut back the supply they make less money. The processors are bleeding, as I said earlier. Something they should sell at three or four dollars, th

Agriculture committee  That's the reason why I say that supply management, especially in the poultry sector, needs to modernize.

Agriculture committee  There needs to be some consequence.

Agriculture committee  I don't seem to have the translation.

Agriculture committee  I'm not....

Agriculture committee  Yes, I hear you now.

Agriculture committee  As I said, they're one cog in the wheel. They supply the raw product, but then the processor has to take that raw product and turn it into something that the consumer wants. The problem with chicken supply management—and it's not the same in all supply management, but in chicke

Agriculture committee  You can take any three of the ones I listed in my presentation earlier. If I wanted to focus, foreign labour is a big problem. The way the temporary foreign labour rules work today is absolutely atrocious. I gave an example earlier about the Nova Scotia plant being shut down due

Agriculture committee  One area where I've seen some great discrepancy is CFIA. They are all supposedly reading the same handbook, but there seem to be various versions of it. What one plant can do...a neighbouring plant may have nowhere near the restrictions. That is extremely problematic, when you're

Agriculture committee  That is correct. The money will go where it's being attracted, so the money is going to go where the risk...and the stability is there, and where there is little fear of government reprisals or government taxes trying to claw back any profit you are trying to make. Yes, the more

Agriculture committee  As I said in my comments, there needs to be an understanding from producers that they're one cog in the wheel and that they have to manage their supply to meet the demand so the whole industry stays viable, not just the producers. Supply management is only at the producer level.

Agriculture committee  And making sure the supply is the right supply.... Right now, the way the system is in chicken, the more the producers produce, the more they make. They have no consequence to the reality of whether or not the processor can sell it.

Agriculture committee  I think it's very rare. As I said in my comments, government needs to focus on creating the right landscape and then let business do business. There are lots of entrepreneurs and lots of money out there. If there is profit to be made, they will find it, but they need to know the

Agriculture committee  Can you just rephrase your question?

Agriculture committee  Take Eden Valley Poultry, a plant that cost $50 million. It doesn't have any government money in it. The producers put in $10 million; a major processor in Canada put in $10 million, and the bank put in $30 million. There's no government money. It's been a very successful plant,