If we take pasta made from 100 per cent Canadian durum semolina and substitute 25 per cent lentil flour, we can go from a good food to a great food.

For the subsectors ‘Dried potatoes in the form of flour, meal, flakes, granules and pellets’, ‘Frozen potatoes, prepared or preserved (including potatoes cooked or partly cooked in oil and then frozen; excluding by vinegar or acetic acid)’, as well as ‘Whey and modified whey in powder, granules or other solid forms, whether or not concentrated or containing added sweetening matter’, this assessment has shown that they can be clearly distinguished from other subsectors on the basis of specific characteristics and that they satisfy the quantitative criteria set out in Article 10a(15) of Directive 2003/87/EC.

This category includes also similar products otherwise denominated such as semolina.

Only cultivation which produces durum wheat suitable for use in the manufacture of semolina and pasta products should be eligible for that aid.

I would much prefer that I have the opportunity to try to make the bread or the cornmeal or the tofu in this country, as opposed to shipping it somewhere else, because the more I can value-add here, the more production capabilities and profit I'm going to bring to this country.

Our members manufacture wheat flour, semolina, wheat bran, and mill feeds, and of those ingredients, the first three are all used as food ingredients, as we trust the members of the committee know.