The Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

has the honour to table its

FIRST REPORT

Your Committee, which was authorized by the Senate to incur expenses for the purpose of its examination and consideration of such legislation and other matters as were referred to it, reports, pursuant to Rule 104, that the expenses of the Committee during the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament were as follows:

With respect to its special study into international trade in agricultural and agri-food products, and short-term and long-term measures for the health of the agricultural and the agri-food industry in all regions of Canada:

In the course of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Parliament, your Committee held 46 meetings and heard 124 witnesses. Your Committee studied two bills: C-25 and S-22. 

Your Committee used its order of reference to examine international trade in agricultural and agri-food products, and short-term and long-term measures for the health of the agricultural and the agri-food industry in all regions of Canada to study Canadian, U.S. and European agriculture policy, the application of multifunctionality and the state of rural farm communities. Your Committee tabled two reports on this study entitled Looking South: U.S. Agriculture and Agri-Food Policy in the New Century and Canadian Farmers at Risk during the last session. 

Your Committee used its order of reference to examine the present and future state of forestry to complete the work from the previous Parliament and tabled a final report entitled Report on Forestry. 

Respectfully submitted, 

DONALD H. OLIVER
Chair