AGRI Committee Report
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Appendix A: List of Witnesses
The following table lists the witnesses who appeared before the committee at its meetings related to this report. Transcripts of all public meetings related to this report are available on the committee’s webpage for this study.
Organizations and Individuals |
Date |
Meeting |
Canadian Centre for Food Integrity Michael Dungate, Chair John Jamieson, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2022/11/21 |
38 |
Agri-Food Analytics Lab Sylvain Charlebois, Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab and Professor, Dalhousie University |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Empire Company Limited Pierre St-Laurent, Chief Operating Officer |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada Michael Graydon, Chief Executive Officer |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada Rebecca Lee, Executive Director |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Loblaw Companies Limited Jodat Hussain, Senior Vice President, Retail Finance |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Retail Council of Canada Karl Littler, Senior Vice-President, Public Affairs |
2022/12/05 |
42 |
Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute Tyler McCann, Managing Director |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
Canadian Federation of Agriculture Mary Robinson, President Scott Ross, Executive Director |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers Gary Sands, Senior Vice-President |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
Metro Inc. François Thibault, Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
Quebec Produce Growers Association Catherine Lefebvre, President Patrice Léger Bourgoin, General Manager |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
Save-On-Foods LP Paul Cope, Senior Vice-President, Retail Operations |
2023/02/06 |
47 |
As an individual James Brander, Professor, University of British Columbia |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Canadians for Tax Fairness D.T. Cochrane, Economist and Policy Researcher |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Centre for Future Work Dr. Jim Stanford, Economist and Director |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Conseil de la transformation alimentaire du Québec Sylvie Cloutier, Chief Executive Officer Dimitri Fraeys, Vice-President, Innovation and Economic Affairs |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Restaurants Canada Olivier Bourbeau, Vice-President, Federal and Quebec |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Union des producteurs agricoles Martin Caron, General President David Tougas, Coordinator, Business Economics |
2023/02/13 |
49 |
Competition Bureau Anthony Durocher, Deputy Commissioner, Competition Promotion Branch Krista McWhinnie, Deputy Commissioner, Monopolistic Practices Directorate Ann Salvatore, Deputy Commissioner, Cartels Directorate |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Dairy Processors Association of Canada Mathieu Frigon, President and Chief Executive Officer Philip Vanderpol, Chair of the Board of Directors |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Department of Industry Mark Schaan, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic and Innovation Policy Sector |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Food and Beverage Canada James Donaldson, Chief Executive Officer, BC Food and Beverage |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Michael H. McCain, Executive Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Statistics Canada Chris Li, Acting Director, Consumer Prices Division Matthew MacDonald, Assistant Director, Consumer Prices Division |
2023/03/06 |
51 |
Empire Company Limited Michael Medline, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/08 |
52 |
Loblaw Companies Limited Galen G. Weston, Chairman and President |
2023/03/08 |
52 |
Metro Inc. Eric La Flèche, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/08 |
52 |
As an individual Ian Lee, Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan Ian Boxall, President |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Assembly of First Nations Chief Byron Louis, Okanagan Indian Band Christine Shawana, Analyst, Research Policy Roberta Stout, Senior Policy Advisor |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Canadian Taxpayers Federation Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Daily Bread Food Bank Neil Hetherington, Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Second Harvest Canada Lori Nikkel, Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/20 |
53 |
Wal-Mart Canada Corp. Gonzalo Gebara, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/03/27 |
55 |
100km Foods Inc. Paul Sawtell, Owner, Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/04/17 |
56 |
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives David Macdonald, Senior Economist |
2023/04/17 |
56 |
Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. Pierre Riel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Costco Wholesale International and Canada |
2023/04/17 |
56 |
Farm Credit Canada Jean-Philippe Gervais, Chief Economist Justine Hendricks, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/04/17 |
56 |
Association québécoise de défense des droits des personnes retraitées et préretraitées Pierre Lynch, President |
2023/04/19 |
57 |
Consumers Council of Canada Ken Whitehurst, Executive Director |
2023/04/19 |
57 |
Food Producers of Canada Denise Allen, President and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/04/19 |
57 |
La Tablée des Chefs Jean-François Archambault, Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
2023/04/19 |
57 |
Nutri Group Sébastien Léveillé, Chief Executive Officer |
2023/04/19 |
57 |
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Amy Hill, Articling Student John Lawford, Executive Director and General Counsel |
2023/04/19 |
57 |