Agriculture committee  We can't really speak to the chicken side of it, but certainly to the egg side of it, yes, it would be a concern. I don't know if Jean-Michel wants to add anything to that.

Agriculture committee  Ovostar, the large Ukrainian company, is one of the largest exporters in Europe. They are located in central Ukraine. Their headquarters are in Kyiv. They have their production facilities around and they export massive amounts of eggs and egg product throughout—

Agriculture committee  Again, we don't know. It's far less likely that they would be table eggs, with the logistics of transporting eggs in the shell, but I don't know. It's more than likely to be egg product. It still creates the same situation that would directly economically impact our family farms.

Agriculture committee  No, I would just pivot back to the other point here, that in addition to that, we have to contemplate that it would directly impact whatever comes in. That's a big part of this. We don't know what will come in. We don't know the volumes. We don't know the frequency. If it's unlim

Agriculture committee  Yes, and that's a really good point to raise. It is a concern. I think I saw a statement that the risk of it being carried on is low. Well, “low” and “zero” are not the same thing. Any time you have supply management opened up in that way, there is always the risk that it will

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll tackle that one. With regard to an egg exam, we know, for example, that Ovostar has a processing company in Latvia, so could eggs or egg products come in from other projects and be routed through the company? There's a risk, and we don't know what that is. We have a

Agriculture committee  I can give a very specific example. The Egg Farmers of Canada built an egg farm on an orphanage in Eswatini, Africa, and we supply about 4,300 hard-cooked eggs through a network of 30 churches and schools. One of our challenges was that we did this without refrigeration, so we w

Agriculture committee  Yes, certainly. Obviously, everybody in this room very much cares about what's happening. This is a tragedy and a humanitarian disaster. Are there other ways besides imports by which we could all work together collaboratively supporting the rebuilding of the country in some way?

Agriculture committee  Thanks very much, Roger. The third matter to highlight for us this evening is the impact of allowing unlimited duty-free egg imports from Ukraine into Canada. This approach weakens the Canadian egg-farming sector by removing our ability to plan our domestic production net of imp

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Roger. Today's egg farmers are experiencing unprecedented challenges, from summer-long droughts in the Prairies to mass forest fires to flooding and all of these incredible winter storms battering Atlantic Canada, all in the midst of a global pandemic. Suppl