Agriculture committee  There is certainly one that comes to mind for me, which is inclusion of all hemp products, but hemp by-products, and especially benign products like seed and its by-products in the commercial feed market. This is a CFIA impediment currently. It's a CFIA regulation, so this is n

Agriculture committee  The biggest thing to understand, again, is that there is no economic case for shipping the industrial product stream—where the stalk material coming off the field is very high volume and currently relatively low valued—any particular distance. The value-added processing needs to

Agriculture committee  I'll take a first try at this, and Mr. Jones or Mr. Haney can follow-up. The distinction is that hemp will sequester when it's growing and use and pull as much or more carbon in most circumstances than pretty much any other broad-acre field crop currently grown in western Canada

Agriculture committee  It's just that point. The distinction between this crop and others is not only that this is a fast-growing crop and a large plant, which generates a large quantity of biomass, but that we're retaining that biomass, like Mr. Jones said, in industrial products. Right now, if you're

Agriculture committee  I would just echo what has been said and have everyone understand that the market is here for the taking. We export much of our food product ingredients—our non-cannabinoid product—to the U.S. We're currently in that exporter market, but that could change if we're not careful.

Agriculture committee  The last thing is just to understand that, although hemp crosses into the cannabis market, that's a very complicated transition and we need our government partners to think about hemp as something different from cannabis so that we get the right regulatory regime to support the i

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for hosting us today. My name is Devin Dubois. I am vice-president and one of the founders of Blue Sky Hemp Ventures. We are, I would say, a primary hemp processor. We make food products from seed, and we also make cannabis products from hemp flo