Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Agriculture
• Animal Health
• Animal Welfare
• Consumer Issues
• current WTO negotiations
• Email and follow-up telephone conversation to receive clarity on provisions pertaining to Revision #4 of the draft WTO modalities on agriculture.
• Environment
• Food Safety
• Government Regulations
• Health
• Internal Trade
• International Trade
• Matters related to AI.
• Research

Subject matters added through a monthly communication report

• Status of WTO agricultural negotiations and the upcoming free trade negotiations with the European Union.
• WTO and vacancy for Chief Agriculture Negotiator

Subject Matter Details

Policies or Program

• Biosecurity: As a result of a number of CFIA initiatives to monitor diseases in the domestic poultry industry, to ensure that the industry operates under strict bio-security guidelines, to eradicate any diseases of significance if they emerge and ensure adequate compensation is available for those producers that must have their flocks euthanized due to an ordered cull, the CTMA works closely with the CFIA. At times, it is necessary for the CTMA to lobby the CFIA or the Minister of Agriculture where the activities of CFIA pertaining to bio-security related matters threaten the competitiveness or health of the industry, or would result in in-adequate compensation being paid to producers.
• NOTICE TO IMPORTERS: The CTMA is a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s (DFAIT) Tariff Rate Quota Advisory Committee (TQAC). This committee is responsible for providing recommendations to the Department and the Minister on the administration of the TRQ for turkey, which are published in the Department’s Notice to Importers. At times, various members of the TQAC will lobby the Department and Minister on the Notice to Importers outside of the TQAC process, if consensus is not possible at the committee level.
• POULTRY REJECTION REFORM: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is restructuring its inspection services related to poultry in federally registered establishments. As the restructuring of inspection activities, such as allowing plant employees to take over inspection from government inspectors, could alter the buying and selling relationship between producers and processors, the CTMA closely monitors any potential reform to poultry inspection practices. Direct lobbying of CFIA and or the Minister of Agriculture may be required under such circumstances, if the impact of reform negatively impacts producers or undermines the competitiveness of the processing sector due to cost recovery/downloading of inspection responsibilities.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB)
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
• Export and Import Controls Bureau (EICB)
• Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• Industry Canada
• International Trade Policy Directorate (AAFC)
• Market and Industry Servcies Branch (AAFC)
• Members of the House of Commons
• Policy Branch (AAFC)
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Health Agency
• Revenue Canada (RC)
• Senate of Canada
• Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)

Address:
7145 West Credit Avenue
Building 1, Suite 202
Mississauga, ON  L5N 6J7
Canada

Telephone number: 905-812-3140  Ext. 222
Fax number: 905-812-9326