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Agriculture committee We went through that question with the deputy minister, Mr. Knubley, about a year and a half ago when the proposal came forward to do the exemption list. That would have been a horrific nightmare to try to deal with. We will agree to disagree on the 98% number. The 98% number i
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee That, primarily, is where the area of automation modernization is required. The Netherlands are very competitive at much higher wage rates and benefit rates than what we have in this country, and they have high energy costs and all the rest of it. Just as an example, energy is
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee Well, fundamentally, you look back to our climate and our agricultural land base in terms of what we are best suited to. We're not the greatest vegetable climate in the world. We have half of southern Alberta covered in greenhouses, and we still can't supply everything required.
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee I'm not sure that legislating it is the answer, obviously, because we are in a market economy and we have a free market out there, and they are entitled to do their thing. However, the Government of Canada and the appropriate ministers can certainly influence those types of decis
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee The difficulty occurs when someone in any given organization who has influence within that organization says they need a better standard than they have. Remember, this is not altruistic. It has nothing to do with altruism at all. They're doing this because food is the next tobacc
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee If I thought for a minute that I could get Galen and the head of Sobeys and the head of Safeway and the head of Save-On-Foods, Jimmy Pattison's group, together in a room, and that they would actually come because I invited them, I would do so. Unfortunately, they won't come becau
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee I spent 45 years in retail here and in the United States.
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee Do you mean in terms of companies?
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee All sizes would benefit from it.
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee Even the small businesses, because—
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee If you want to go from being small to medium-sized, you need to be able to go into that kind of a jump. Again, we have Alberta. We have a lot of things in place out there. We have this business incubator. We have the development centre. We built the business incubator so that peo
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee At the end of the day, it's whatever the defaults were—
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee —and the time value of the money.
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee As I said, it's whatever.... It's the loan pool we're talking about here.
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston
Agriculture committee In that loan pool, I would suggest you're probably looking at somewhere between $800 million and $900 million to take us significantly down that road, and you could continue to reinvest it. The other downside with API is that API money coming back in will not be reinvested in tha
February 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Ted Johnston