Food and Beverage Canada / Aliments et boissons Canada
Registration:
1
of
2
(2023-07-04
to
2024-05-31)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Budget: Measures in annual federal budget to support food and beverage processing, including implementation of Agri-food Economic Strategy Table Report.
- International Trade: The provisions of the text of the USMCA as they relate to agriculture and agri-food, including tariff schedules, Tariff Rate Quotas, regulatory cooperation and measures related to non-tariff barriers.
Policies or Program
- Facilitating the entry into Canada of technicians required to maintain critical infrastructure
- Grocery Code of Conduct: Asking that the federal government lead the development of a Code of Conduct related to relationships in Canada's food supply chain.
- Industry: The adoption of innovation in the food and beverage sector in the context of the Strategic Innovation Fund
- Labour: Enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program and pathways to permanency for food and beverage processing labour
- Refugees - requesting resettlement programs for refugees
- Science and Technology: ISED policies and programs to promote innovation and technology adoption in the food and beverage processing sector
- Science and Technology: Policies and programs to develop, maintain and adapt cybersecurity within the food and beverage processing sector
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Agriculture: Policies related to the food and beverage processing sector including: funding for industry research and development, implementation of Safe Foods for Canadians Regulations.
- Health: Policies and regulations related to food and beverage products including the federal government's Health Eating Strategy, Front of Pack labelling regulations, Marketing to Children regulations, modifications to the Food Guide, modifications the Food and Drugs Regulations.
- Immigration - requesting pathways to permanent residence for Temporary Foreign Workers
- Regulatory Modernization: Regulations and Policies to modernize Canada's approach to regulating.
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program - requesting amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Regulation
- Immigration: Enhancements to the Temporary Foreign Workers program and pathways to permanency for food and beverage processing labour.