International Trade committee  In our case, if I can—

International Trade committee  First comes the chicken and then comes the processor.

International Trade committee  To be fair, the cost of Canadian chicken, raw material for further processing, broiler chicken, is higher than the world cost, or the cost from the United States. It's part of our system. It's part of fair pricing to producers. It's okay; I've already said we support the system,

International Trade committee  To add to that, the increased enforcement is obvious. It's obvious because my members are talking to me about what's happening. It's obvious because the numbers on spent fowl, for example, are going way down. By the end of June, we were operating at somewhere around a 50% increas

International Trade committee  No, it's the latter. It has nothing to do with avian influenza.

International Trade committee  Absolutely.

International Trade committee  Good morning. Thank you. My name is Robin Horel and I am the president and CEO of the Canadian Poultry and Egg Processors Council. I thank you for the invitation to provide to the committee and other interested parties our perspectives on the Canada Border Services Agency's dut

Agriculture committee  Farmers, yes, but remember, my members are one step down the supply chain from the farmers. My guys are the egg graders, the egg processors. Farmers are going to be there too, but we're all going to hear it together. It's the full supply chain.

Agriculture committee  Thanks. I wish my members were as attentive to my program as you are. That's terrific. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. I've talked with Jackie, of course, who will be one of the presenters. I've talked with Al and I've talked with Tim. The idea in my mind is I'd

Agriculture committee  Sure. I had written a note here. I was going to say the same thing. There is all kinds of research showing that Canadians trust farmers. On the hierarchy ladder, farmers are right up there with veterinarians. Processors are further down. People who work for processors, like me,

Agriculture committee  As I outlined at the start of my presentation, one of the things that my members—chicken processors, turkey processors, hatcheries, egg graders, egg processors—have in common is that they all buy their most significant raw material from supply-managed farmers. We support the syst

Agriculture committee  Yes, but what I was trying to suggest was that 10 years is pretty quick, and in fact, Jackie and the group are reviewing a lot of codes that are a lot older. Our codes were, up until this new NFACC process, the most recent ones we had. They were from 2003. In 10 years to start go

Agriculture committee  Sorry, I didn't make my point very well.

Agriculture committee  I don't know. Do you know, Jackie?

Agriculture committee  It's my understanding, and this is anecdotal from my understanding of the industry and internationally, that no one else has this sort of rigorous stem-to-stern process. Something may change with regard to castration in pigs or whatever is going on. It's stuff that doesn't have f