Registry of Lobbyists
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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, 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, 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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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, 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, 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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To coordinate the efforts of agriculture producer organizations throughout Canada for the purpose of promoting their common interest through collective action to assist members and, where necessary government, in and for promoting national agricultural policies to meet changing domestic and international economic conditions; and to collaborate and cooperate with organized groups of producers outside Canada to further this objective. To promote and advance acceptance of positive social, economic and environmental conditions of those engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Scott Ross, Executive Director
Address:
21 Florence Street
Ottawa, ON K2P 0W6
Canada
Telephone number:
613-366-4721