Agriculture committee  If I recall, that fund was $252 million. I think that's the one you're referring to. I think that was taken up within days or within weeks at most. I think applications were made by probably all of our companies, and we didn't receive anything through that fund. It's unfortunate.

Agriculture committee  Philip, please go ahead.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we're provincially inspected at this point, and we have looked a number of times at becoming federally inspected. The barriers to that primarily would be financing, meaning access to capital. However, probably as great a barrier as that is the complexity of the system of C

Agriculture committee  I can submit the entire report to you for sure, yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we have. The CFIB asked for and was successful in having a conference call attended by the president of CFIA. That was the first time I was allowed to really present my case fully to the president of the CFIA. The outcome was essentially what I've written in the brief, whi

Agriculture committee  That is very likely. Yes, it's very safe to say that.

Agriculture committee  From my perspective—and obviously I'm a small-to-medium enterprise—I see the backbone of the Canadian economy as these family-owned, family-operated farms and processing plants and so on. I absolutely value the largest processors. There's absolutely a place for that product. Th

Agriculture committee  If a plant in Canada wanted to become EU certified, there is a substantial process for them to go through. If a plant in the European Union wants to be certified to ship to Canada, it's basically a paper-pushing exercise, because we say we've recognized the equivalency of the EU

Agriculture committee  That's exactly right.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I do. I absolutely would support there being a grocery code of conduct. We have faced situations when we have delivered product to various of the larger chains. There are challenges right through the process in terms of getting dock times or delivery times. Our trucks end

Agriculture committee  I think there are a number of areas where lenders in general could do better. I'm not sure I could even identify one at this point. I'm sorry. I've dealt with Farm Credit in the past, and they're good to work with, although I'm not with Farm Credit at this point. The process

Agriculture committee  That's nice, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  In my estimation—and I referred to this point in my presentation—without civilian oversight, I don't see that there's going to be change in the agency. There have to be consequences when things go so wrong, and they have gone wrong for years. There is very much an acrimonious rel

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's from Europe and from the U.S. The challenge with it coming from Europe is that what's coming in is so terribly cheap.

Agriculture committee  We argued from the outset that the legislation really wasn't the issue. The agreement wasn't the issue, because it stipulated that it needed to be as if it were produced in the Canadian plant. The problem was that we do a good job of signing these agreements, but we don't do a gr