Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities
Registration:
4
of
12
(2022-03-11
to
2022-05-19)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
- Infrastructure funding programs for municipalities with regard to the need for continued and increased levels of spending.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Saskatchewan Act – Section 24 of the Saskatchewan Act regarding the tax exemption to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Species at Risk Act (SARA), mitigating the effects of SARA for landowners, municipalities.
- Trade Agreements, including CUSMA and the effect it has on Canadian agricultural producers.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program
- Carbon tax, impact of carbon tax on Saskatchewan's agricultural producers and municipalities.
Policies or Program
- Agriculture: Business Risk Management Program suite under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, in particular requesting changes that will enhance support for producers under the programs.
- Aquatic Invasive Species - Requesting federal government lead the fight to prevent AIS throughout Canada and Saskatchewan's waters.
- Broadband - Requesting government investment to enhance service in rural Saskatchewan.
- Canadian Agricultural Partnership - Ensuring CAP serves to maintain and increase competitiveness in the Canadian Agricultural sector.
- Chronic Wasting Disease - policies to prevent the spread of CWD
- Control of Richardson Ground Squirrels with regard to research and control measures.
- Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA) with respect to increasing the compensation for use of municipally owned equipment.
- Emergency response fund; establishment of an emergency response fund that will give departments the resources they need to continue providing essential services without risk of non-payment.
- Energy Infrastructure - advancing the notion that pipelines are a safer mode of transportation than rail.
- Federal support for municipalities and agricultural producers in Saskatchewan in relation to the Economic Response Plan.
- International trade with respect to agricultural products.
- Municipal access to Can-Sask job grant
- Promotion of effective and efficient grain transportation and monitoring of transportation.
- Providing comments on the need for improvements to the Temporary Foreign Workers TFW) program.
- RCMP presence in rural Saskatchewan. Preventing rural crime.
- Water treatment systems, alternative water treatment technologies continue to be explored ad where feasible, applicable regulations and guidelines be updated to allow for the most efficient use of those technologies.
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Transportation policy and regulation with regard to grain and grain products, and the products of agriculture generally.