International Trade committee  Those are the main things.

International Trade committee  Yes. The tariff on beef that Europe has varies depending on the form it goes in, but it's all in the ballpark of about 12.5% of the value, plus approximately—

International Trade committee  Right. Plus 3,000 euros per tonne, which is prohibitively high.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. We estimate we need about 500,000 head per year produced according to the European standards, and there are already many Canadian producers that are raising cattle without the hormone implants or without the beta-agonists, but they are not going through the documentat

International Trade committee  You know, we estimate that to raise cattle without using those technologies is probably going to add approximately 20% to the cost of production. So we look at the European market and we figure that, out of each animal, there's probably about 100 kilograms that it makes sense to

International Trade committee  You're close. We got 65,000 tonnes of new duty-free access. Of that, 50,000 of it is fresh, 15,000 of it is frozen, and there's no distinction between bone-in or boneless. With respect to acid wash, I believe you mean lactic acid, which is a naturally occurring substance in our

International Trade committee  Great. Thank you very much, and thank you again for the opportunity to appear before you. It really has been quite a journey to achieve a successful Canada-Europe free trade agreement. I'm really pleased that this day has come and that we can now speak with you about the tremendo

Agriculture committee  Yes. Those animals and that extra weight would still be beef that was produced under that EU protocol, so produced without hormone implants, produced without any growth enhancers. Certainly, there is a market for that product in Canada, in the United States, and it's also a highe

Agriculture committee  We are very dependent on the U.S. for our exports. We export about half of what we produce in the beef sector, and about 80% of that goes to the United States. When you do put so many eggs in one basket, you're vulnerable if something goes wrong. So here we are in the COOL situat

Agriculture committee  It's not happening right now, at least sending cattle out to your neck of the woods. But there are lots of young cattle that come from western Canada into Ontario, for example, because the infrastructure is there in Ontario for the feeding and for the processing. Part of the chal

Agriculture committee  —say Atlantic Beef in Charlottetown, P.E.I., if it's approved for export to Europe, I don't see why things like that couldn't occur.

Agriculture committee  I was wondering if we'd get there. You've just used up all your time.

Agriculture committee  Basically, what it comes down to is there are different ways of measuring the weight of the shipment. For product weight, if you ship a tonne, it counts as a tonne against the quota, but for the carcass weight, a conversion factor is applied. If you ship a tonne of boneless beef,

Agriculture committee  Shortages of farm labour are a real problem across the country. There's a difference between seasonal workers and permanent workers. The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council has estimated that we're short about 50,000 full-time, year-round agricultural workers in Canada a

Agriculture committee  There are the free trade agreements and then there are the market openings that have been very important in trying to get back all those markets that closed because of BSE. We've still got a few more things out there, but every time we get one more of those back—I don't have the