International Trade committee  We could find that out. We also have something that was created about two years ago called the legacy fund. This was an idea that we, as an industry, had to get our markets back from the BSE and to recover from that. We believed that we were going to need approximately $210 mill

International Trade committee  When I think about infrastructure and the many things Martin has mentioned that are common in shipping red meat, whether chilled or frozen, around the world, I don't really see them as being issues related to the Canada-Korea free trade agreement or any trade agreement per se. I

International Trade committee  I have the schedule of the United States-Korea free trade agreement, and for beef cuts--steaks, roasts, and those sorts of things--the 40% tariff will be eliminated in 15 equal annual stages. There will be what they call a trigger volume that starts at 270,000 tonnes the first ye

International Trade committee  The options are that you move forward or you fall back, and right now the position we're in is that we're falling back versus the United States. We need to get the beef access restored, get the prohibition lifted, and we need to get the same terms of access as the U.S. If we have

International Trade committee  I think non-tariff barriers have become a fact of life. We expect they will occur. How do you respond to them? That's why one of the things we have asked for is to have a mechanism in this agreement to deal with these SPS problems when they come up. I mentioned that the frustrat

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Thank you for inviting us to appear today to provide the Canadian cattle industry's views on “Product of Canada” labelling. Indeed, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, as the only national voice for nearly 90,000 cattle producers, is always pleased to appear before

Agriculture committee  My understanding is that since 2003, only two supplemental import permit requests were approved. I think both of them were in 2004-05 and they were for very small quantities. I think it was about a half a tonne.

Agriculture committee  I think so. I think what we tried to express is that we do not favour a definition based on a percentage of value. I can give you an example. If you're producing, say, 1,000 tonnes of ground beef and it has perhaps 800 pounds of imported meat and maybe 200 pounds of Canadian tr

Agriculture committee  In the context I tried to present at the beginning, most of the beef in Canada is Canadian beef, and most of it comes from cattle that are produced in Canada. What we wanted to establish were two levels: “Product of Canada” and “Grown in Canada”. Each of these requires some tra

Agriculture committee  Right. If you're going to call it Canadian, it has to be Canadian.

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure if you mean a percentage of value.

Agriculture committee  I don't even mean a percentage. In the example I used, when you have ground beef that has imported ground beef, it's not Canadian, so it can't be called Canadian, period. That's what we'd be saying on that. I think probably in this room--and I don't think anybody has mentioned i

Agriculture committee  It needs to have become beef in Canada.

Agriculture committee  I'm making a distinction between cattle and beef.

Agriculture committee  If you're talking about raw beef, which is in chapter 2 of the tariff, it has to be totally Canadian beef, not necessarily from Canadian cattle but Canadian beef.