Grain Growers of Canada / Les producteurs de grains du Canada

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Registration: 42 of 44 (2024-07-22 to 2024-08-07)

Details Regarding the Identified Subject Matter

Subject matters	Details	Categories
Transportation	Advocating for a fair and efficient railway transportation system that serves the needs of grain producers.	Policies or Program
Agriculture, International Trade	Agricultural trade negotiations, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Canada-India, and proposed bi-lateral with China, with respect to more export market opportunities for grain farmers.	Policies or Program
Agriculture, Natural Resources	Biofuels and the regulations related to biofuels including the % content required in Cdn fuels, feed stocks, and the incentive programs in place for expansion.	Policies or Program
Labour, Transportation	Canada Labour Code, and regulations specifically related to grain handling and transportation.	Regulation
Taxation and Finance	Capital Gains Inclusion Rate, specifically as it relates to intergenerational transfers and family farms.	Policies or Program
Agriculture	Creation of new rural development programs, with a specific focus on research and value adding to the cereal, oilseeds and pulse sectors.	Policies or Program
Agriculture, Transportation	Grain Transportation Act, specifically on the transportation of cereal, oilseed and pulse crops.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Health	Health Canada - Food and Drug Regulations as they relate to mandatory nutrition labeling, health claims involving cereal grains, oilseeds and pulse crops, Genetically Modified food labeling.	Regulation
Taxation and Finance	Income Tax Act and specifically taxation related to agriculture and value-added agricultural processing.	Policies or Program
Agriculture, Taxation and Finance	Increase A-base funding for public research for the grains, oilseeds and pulse sectors within AAFC existing budget and to increase the global AAFC budget.	Policies or Program
Environment, Taxation and Finance	National Farm Stewardship Program and more specifically costs of administration to be borne by farmers.	Policies or Program
Health	Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to Minor Use Pesticide Program including new pesticides, minor uses and amended labelling for usage.	Regulation
Health, International Trade	Pesticide Management Review Agency regulations in regards to the Own Use Import and the Grower Requested Own Use programs.	Regulation
Agriculture, Environment, Industry	Right to repair to ensure that grain farmers can access diagnostics software to repair their equipment.	Policies or Program
Agriculture	Seeds Act, more specifically existing and proposed regulations from CFIA and AAFC on Plant Novel Traits, Weed Seed Orders and Genetically Modified Organisms.	Policies or Program
Agriculture, Environment, Taxation and Finance	Support passage of Bill C-234, An Act to Amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, to further enable farmers' role as climate solutions providers and support competitiveness.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Agriculture, Economic Development, Science and Technology	Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS) - Ensuring that the strategy is fully funded, does not include any targets without data and helps to grow food production to meet increasing domestic and global demand.	Policies or Program
Taxation and Finance	Tax Code, Income Tax Act, specifically proposed changes to Tax Planning Using Private Corporations.	Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
Agriculture	The Smart Regulation initiative as it relates to crop registration, agriculture, crop input registrations and health claims for human or animal consumption.	Policies or Program
Natural Resources, Transportation	Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, specifically around the movement and storage of crop inputs and farm machinery.	Policies or Program