Registry of Lobbyists
Canadian Federation of Agriculture / La Fédération canadienne de l'agriculture
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Budget, Taxation and Finance
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Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance. Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) is a deduction that can be claimed over a period of several years. The accelerated investment incentive provides an enhanced first-year allowance for certain eligible property that is subject to CCA rules. Budget 2021 allowed for immediate expensing of up to $1.5 million of eligible investments (e.g., tractors, combines, etc.,) each year by Canadian-controlled private corporations. The measure applied from April 2021 - December 2023. CFA seeks a re-introduction of this tax measure to make it more permanent to help farmers facing tight operating margins where they would otherwise delay investment in machinery and equipment.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA – Agricultural Marketing Products Act, in respect to increasing maximum advance limits, reducing red tape, increasing flexibility regarding cash repayments, and promoting increased access to the program for all producers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Taxation and Finance
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA - Agricultural Marketing Products Act regulations, to ensure that the Advance Payments Program continues to provide producers with access to advances on product marketing to alleviate unmanageable cash flow concerns.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, International Trade
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA and GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANDA - In respect to Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to ensure Canada achieves beneficial results for Canadian farmers, including real and meaningful market access for our export –reliant commodities while protecting Canada’s supply managed-sector
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Environment, International Trade, Labour, Transportation
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA – in respect to agricultural safety net legislation, to ensure that Canadian farmers are adequately protected from unforeseen, uncontrollable falls in income due to weather, insects, disease, trade action, market failure or international trade distorting subsidies, business risk management programs.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, International Trade, Transportation
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA - In respect to review of Canada Transportation Act, to ensure that crop farmer and shipper needs are addressed in light of chronic grain rail transportation problems in Western Canada
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Intellectual Property
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AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD CANADA – Plant Breeders’ Rights regulations, in respect to balancing the needs of producers with the interests of varietal developers, investors, and other relevant stakeholders.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, Animal Welfare, Justice and Law Enforcement
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AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA/HEALTH CANADA – regulations which concern the human treatment and handling of animals that could affect the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to agricultural producers. Bill S-275, Biosecurity on Farms.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, Environment
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AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA – Pesticide Risk Reduction Program – to reduce the risk of pesticides and promote alternative approaches to pest management.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Environment, Taxation and Finance
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Bill C-234 and Carbon Pricing - to seek support for Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, which would provide carbon tax relief to certain farming activities such as grain drying and heating barns and greenhouses, and to ensure carbon pricing does not further impact farmers essential production practices.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture
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Canada Grain Act (CGC) - to seek the modernization of the Canada Grain Act to better represent the interests of producers, be more predictable, cost effective and transparent, and increased funding to the CGC to support the public good function of the CGC such as grain quality assurance, while reaffirming the Canadian Grain Commission's mandate to maintain standards and regulate grain handling in the interests of grain producers.
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Policies or Program, Regulation
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Agriculture, Environment, Health, International Trade
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CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY – Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act, in respect to food labelling, statements and claims.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Internal Trade, International Trade
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CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY – Feed regulations, in respect to new and innovative ingredients and ensuring competitiveness.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Internal Trade, International Relations, International Trade
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CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY – Fertilizer regulations, in respect to ensuring Canadian agriculture has timely access to safe, efficacious, fertilizer and supplements at competitive prices.
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Regulation
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Agriculture
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CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY – Safe Food for Canadians Act, in respect to regulatory modernization within Canada’s food inspection regime and how changes may affect agricultural producers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture
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CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION – Canada Grains Act, in respect to ensuring payment security mechanisms provide adequate protection to producers facing instances of non-payment and/or late payment
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Health
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Competitiveness Lens in Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) - to seek support from regulators such as PMRA and CFIA to ensure policies and regulations such as those relating to labelling, packaging, licensing, and certification, consider the economic and competitiveness impacts on Canadian businesses, while maintaining PMRA and CFIA's primary objective to protect the health and safety of Canadians and the Canadian environment.
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Policies or Program, Regulation
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Agriculture
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Disaster Relief - to ensure that farmers have access to Business Risk Management programs that are adequate and responsive to the effects of extreme weather events across Canada, CFA seeks for the government of Canada to strike a disaster relief task team and summit with the provinces, territories, and farm groups to determine a course of action to support Canadian farmers.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Employment and Training, Labour
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EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, in respect to ensuring the Canadian agricultural industry has access to skilled, competitive labour.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, Employment and Training, Labour
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EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Labour Market Agreements and Labour Market Development Agreements, in respect to improving the ability of the Canadian agricultural industry to continually improve the skills of farmers, and have access to skilled, competitive labour.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Employment and Training, Immigration, Labour
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EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Temporary Foreign Worker Program, in respect to ensuring adequate access to labour for Canadian farms, encouraging avenues to permanent residency, and better integration of under-represented groups.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Animal Welfare, Environment
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Environment and Climate Change Canada – Species at Risk Act or habitat conservation bill or resolution that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Transportation
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Extended Interswitching - to seek an extension of the temporary 18-month pilot of extended interswitching introduced in Budget 2023 through an amendment to the Canada Transportation Act for an additional 30 months and extend the distance to 500 km to gather more information on how it can support increased rail competition.
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Budget
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Federal Data Strategy - to recommend that Canada develop a national strategy and data governance legislative framework to provide clear rules regarding the use, mobilization, and storage of data, protect against privacy concerns, and promote data literacy to support Canada's productivity and sustainability objectives.
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Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Environment, Taxation and Finance
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FINANCE CANADA – Federal Budget, in respect to increased public research funding for climate change adaptation & crop varietal development, promoting investment into future risk mitigation, and facilitating intergenerational farm transfers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Environment, International Trade
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FINANCE CANADA - Income, business, and Goods and Services taxation regulations, in respect to ensuring the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors.
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Regulation
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Agriculture, Taxation and Finance
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FINANCE CANADA – Income Tax Act, in respect to facilitating intergenerational farm transfers through holding companies, greater flexibility around sibling ownership, and the interpretation of restricted farm losses.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, International Trade, Taxation and Finance
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FINANCE CANADA – Income Tax Act, in respect to income, business, and Goods and Services taxation to ensure that the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Environment, Internal Trade, International Trade
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HEALTH CANADA – Pest Control Products Act, in respect to reducing environmental and health risks of pest control products while improving the opportunities and environmental and economic sustainability for agricultural producers.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Environment
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HEALTH CANADA – Pest Control Products Regulations, in respect of ensuring the science-based assessment and registration of pest control products is carried out in a competitive, healthy and environmentally safe manner that offers agricultural producers with economical input choices.
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Regulation
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Agriculture
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Large Animal Veterinarians - to seek support for the recruitment and accreditation of foreign-trained veterinarians by establishing a national testing centre to ensure foreign-trained veterinarians can become qualified to practice in Canada sooner and address the critical shortage of large animal vets in Canada.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Taxation and Finance
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Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption - to seek an increase to the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption due to the appreciation of farmland values and capital demands for agriculture over recent years, and to address the challenges for young farmers to enter to the sector.
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Regulation, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Labour
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National Workforce Strategy Secretariat - to seek support for a secretariat to the National Workforce Strategy that would maintain stakeholder engagement and advance the research articulated in the strategy.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Privacy and Access to Information
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STATISTICS CANADA – Census on Agriculture, ensuring accurate data for the Canadian agriculture industry.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Privacy and Access to Information
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STATISTICS CANADA – Crop Production Surveys, ensuring accurate production estimates for the Canadian agriculture industry.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Privacy and Access to Information
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STATISTICS CANADA – Information Dissemination, ensuring the Statistics Canada website facilitates access to agricultural information in a user-friendly fashion.
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Policies or Program
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Agriculture, Labour
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Temporary Foreign Worker Program - to seek support in addressing the chronic labour shortages in the agriculture sector by ensuring the agriculture streams are maintained to support farmers' seasonal and temporary needs, while at the same time supporting pathways to permanent residency for experienced temporary foreign workers.
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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Agriculture, International Trade, Labour, Transportation
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TRANSPORT CANADA and CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY - - In respect to review of Canada Transportation Act, to ensure that crop farmer and shipper needs are addressed in light of chronic grain rail transportation problems in Western Canada
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Agriculture, Employment and Training, Labour
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• IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES AND CITIZENSHIP CANADA – Express entry programs, encouraging sufficient avenues to permanent residency for experienced, temporary Canadian farm workers.
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Policies or Program
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