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Why processing beans, peas and lentils could solve Canada's 'commodity conundrum' Back to video
“It’s being processed somewhere else and we buy it back in pasta,” Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said.
That pasta represents a missed opportunity for the Canadian economy. That wheat that sells relatively cheaply on the commodities market ends up in another country, where companies create jobs and pay taxes to turn it into consumer goods that can then be sold at a healthy markup.
“We can definitely do more as a whole industry,” Bibeau said in a recent interview about increasing Canada’s food processing capacity. “This is something I’m struggling with.”