Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable DIANE F. GRIFFIN
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Issue No. 56
Thirteenth and fourteenth meetings:
Study on how the value-added food sector can be more competitive in global markets
INCLUDING:
THE THIRTEENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Supplementary Budget 2018-2019 — Value added)
WITNESSES
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council:
Mary Robinson, Chair;
Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, Executive Director.
United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada:
Derek Johnstone, Special Assistant to the National President.
Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services:
Kenneth Elgin Forth, President.
As an individual:
Keron Headley.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Canadian Mushroom Growers' Association:
Ryan Koeslag, Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer.
HyLife:
Baerbel Langner, Legal Counsel-Immigration, Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association, National Immigration Section.
Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers:
Justine Taylor, Science and Government Relations Manager.
Employment and Social Development Canada:
Steven West, Director, Sector Policy, Temporary Foreign Worker Program, Skills and Employment Branch.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada:
Natasha Kim, Director General, Immigration Branch;
Helene Panagakos, Director, Temporary Resident Program Division, Immigration Program Guidance.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada:
Tom Rosser, Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch;
Marco Valicenti, Director General, Sector Development and Analysis Directorate, Market and Industry Services Branch.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Diane F. Griffin, Chair
The Honourable Ghislain Maltais, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Ataullahjan, Black (Ontario), Dagenais, *Day (or Mercer), Doyle, Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Mercer, Oh, Petitclerc, *Smith (or Martin), Woo, *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Petitclerc replaced the Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne (October 3, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Miville-Dechêne replaced the Honourable Senator Petitclerc (October 2, 2018).