Agriculture committee  Wayne, that is why in our submission we talk about putting regulations in place and not guidelines. If they want to use “Product of Canada”, they'd have to follow those regulations to put “Product of Canada” on the package. If they think that is too onerous, and if the percentage

Agriculture committee  In addition to what Pierre said, I think that the specific markets that should be targeted are the ones which involve a direct relation between the consumer and the producer. In English, this is called market power. On this kind of market, as soon as the producer and the consumer

Agriculture committee  This has been a gradual evolution. I would compare it to a farm field where weeds start to pick up in your field and you can't find any herbicide to kill it, and it keeps growing worse and worse. We are at a level now where it has surfaced to a point that the consumer has been ma

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure of the exact process here. If we mean that we do away with “Product of Canada” and you can't put it on the label any more....

Agriculture committee  In our submission we talk about still using “Product of Canada”, but putting regulations in place and not confusing it. If it gets too onerous, then they can go and say “Processed in Canada”. I think the issue for me is more like if we go with “Grown in Canada”, I wouldn't want

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. A lot of the examples we use in our presentation have been used, so I'd like to focus on four key points in our presentation. For the record, we support the CFA grown-in-Canada approach very highly. We have a system here in Canada that's been

International Trade committee  Nothing is stopping India from buying cheese from Canada. If they come and ask, we'll gladly sell them cheese. We'll do the same for any country that wants it. It's not that we don't want to do this, but it has to be profitable. That's the bottom line. You can't not get governme

International Trade committee  I just want to point out that it's not that simple. It's not just about over-quota, about tariff reduction, about all that stuff. Countries manage their TRQs, their in-quota, their market access, and their over-quota through a number of elements. We never said we don't want a t

International Trade committee  Based on CITT and CBSA, there is ongoing revision of CITT. I don't know if it's from our criticism of it or not, but there's a lack of logic. For example, in the context of butteroil/sugar blend, we argued that butteroil/oil sugar blend was displacing butter fat and displacing bu

International Trade committee  As far as the number of reductions per farm, down from 42,000 to 15,000, there are a number of elements. The rationalization of the dairy farm has not been any different from the general farm population. I think production per cow increased, based on a mature market, and has crea

International Trade committee  I can tell you what I think, even though I may not be entirely right. Canada is a net exporting country, which means that it does not operate like the United States or the European Union. Whenever Canada wants to deal with a sector that is protected, these countries go on a fre

International Trade committee  Historically it basically works that compensation is 10% above the average three years of imports at the level they have been coming in. When it comes to Article XXVIII, it's one of the approaches we recommended. The minister raised some concern, because we were engaged in bilate

International Trade committee  Canada is always timid when faced with this type of situation. It hates to do anything that is not within the realm of free trade, while all of the other countries are doing it. We have to wake up. The damage caused to the dairy industry in the case of butter oil and milk protei

International Trade committee  When the United States speaks, we have to sit up and take notice—

International Trade committee  Yes, but the United States have a tendency to always adopt an extreme position. They have the power to do that. They won't take it all the way, they want all of the other countries to defend their own interests. In this case, our own negotiator is saying that he will defend the i