Agriculture committee  I'll be brief. I don't disagree with what Tim said earlier on the measurement, but given how difficult it is to move Health Canada—they're stuck on square feet—we felt it was just easier to continue down that road, but I think the Cannabis Act review should help that. We know i

Agriculture committee  It's all of the above, and the stigma that still exists—

Agriculture committee  I can help there a a little bit.

Agriculture committee  We are working very closely with the Quebec association on exactly that, namely, the ways that we can share experiences and learn from each other. I think there are definitely models that we can work off of together. Through innovation on issues like smell and odour, prohibitio

Agriculture committee  Absolutely, and I congratulate the Kootenay council for their excellent work. Tim may be able to give you a better technical answer on this. I think the broader scope, particularly around the issues of microbes, is that the laws have really been brought in without a lot of enga

Agriculture committee  Those are good points. I would add that the restrictive micro-class regulations are really the gift that keeps giving to the illicit market. What we're seeing is consumers are really voting with their feet. They don't have the product they want on the store shelves. They don't ha

Agriculture committee  That's largely correct. It's really a patchwork across the country. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency to it, but generally, the answer is no when our members go in. There have been some exceptions. Community Futures. for example, has done some good work in British Col

Agriculture committee  My sincere apologies; the translation was not working in my headset, so I'm not sure where the question went.

Agriculture committee  I think Mr. Smitherman touched on it a bit, as well, in his presentation in terms of really looking at our lens across federal rules—particularly in the agriculture department, grant programs at Industry Canada and regional economic development agencies—to recognize what it reall

Agriculture committee  The figure right now is arbitrary. It's, as Tim described: It's very small, or about half the neutral zone of a hockey rink, and it's very difficult to make a profit. What we've suggested previously to the government is that this should at least be doubled to 4,200 square feet, w

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for the opportunity to speak to you on this important topic. The BC Craft Farmers Co-op was established two years ago to help B.C.'s legendary craft cannabis farmers transition to the legal market and maintain our province's glob