Agriculture committee  I'll comment on the WTO challenge to the U.S. initiated by Canada on corn subsidies. It wasn't necessarily on dumping; it was an overall subsidy program by the U.S., parallel to the cotton case. Recently, there hasn't been corn dumping in Canada, especially within the last 9 or

Agriculture committee  I have a couple of things. You mentioned the frustration with the complexity and delivery of the program. Unfortunately, that comes with the program. If you want a simple program you make a flat acreage payment or per head payment or whatever. That's the simplest delivery program

Agriculture committee  As far as this plant is concerned, a 100-million-gallon or 400-million-litre ethanol plant will require one million tonnes of cereal grain. Last year we had a 10-million-tonne wheat carry-out in this country, most of it low quality or low grade, not food-grade quality, but a huge

Agriculture committee  The specific subsection I think is 32(1), that the Wheat Board is required to market all grain offered to it. They have failed to do that, and they have not been called to account for that. That is the effect on the CAIS program relating to that specific part of the act. If they'

Agriculture committee  I have a comment on the disincentive. Part of the problem that we recognized in the CAIS program was when we went to 100% coverage. If you make the CAIS program too rich, it's a disincentive to take out crop insurance. We want to avoid the conflict of CAIS versus crop insurance.

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  But you don't want to make the two programs competitive.

Agriculture committee  I'd like to respond.

Agriculture committee  On the specific question of disaster systems, we had originally proposed that CAIS would cover the negative margin up to 75%. Your question about whether the government should cover specific cases over individual causes gets into a huge bureaucratic problem. And then you get prob

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm also a graduate of Olds College. I farm about 40 minutes southwest of here in the foothills of Alberta. I'd like to thank the committee for taking the time to come on a road trip. I know it's a big job to get organized and get the committee on the