Lobbying Information
Subject Matters
- Agriculture
- Consumer Issues
- Employment and Training
- Environment
- Immigration
- Industry
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Trade
- International Trade
- Labour
- Science and Technology
- Small Business
- Taxation and Finance
- Transportation
Subject Matter Details
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
- Agricultural Profitability - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for increased agricultural business risk support for agricultural producers
- Consumer Confidence - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for traceability funding and programming is maintained
- Environmental Sustainability - Lobby Environment and Climate Change Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for expansion of funding for alternate land use services.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- Agriculture Profitability - Income Tax Act - Lobby Canada Revenue Agency for increased exemptions for farmer capital gains; enhanced small business taxation rates and allowable farm expenses
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Infrastructure - Canadian Transportation Act - Lobby Transport Canada for meaningful changes to the CTA regarding grain transportation
Policies or Program
- Consumer Confidence - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for program and policy support to enhance consumer confidence and maintaining agriculture's social licence.
- Immigration - Lobby Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and Canada for changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
- Research and Innovation - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for increased investment and capacity within the agricultural sector
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Consumer Confidence - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for adequate funding for CFIA food inspection
- Environment - Species at Risk Act - Lobby Environment and Climate Change Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to ensure that Orders issued do not adversely impact agricultural land owners.
Communication Techniques
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Written communication
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Oral communication
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Grass-roots communication
Government Institutions
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
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Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
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Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
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Competition Bureau Canada (COBU)
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Competition Tribunal (CT)
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Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
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Farm Credit Canada (FCC)
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Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
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Finance Canada (FIN)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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National Research Council (NRC)
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Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
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Privy Council Office (PCO)
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Senate of Canada
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Service Canada (ServCan)
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Statistics Canada (StatCan)
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Transport Canada (TC)
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Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)
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Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD)
In-house Organization Details
Description of the organization's activities
To advocate, through policy development and promotion, to all levels of government on behalf of primary agricultural producers. The policies that the organization develops and promotes strive to improve the economic well-being of agricultural producers, and to support viable rural communities and infrastructure.
Responsible officer name and position during the period of this registration
Duane Haave,
General Manager
Organization's membership or classes of membership
Individual producers, via membership of their rural municipality; provincial commodity or other special interest groups as associate members.
Government funding
End date of the last completed financial year:
2015-10-31
List of Government Funding
Government Institution
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Funding Received in Last Financial Year
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Funding Expected in Current Financial Year
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Farm Credit Canada (FCC)
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$10,000.00
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Yes
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In-house Organization Contact Information
Address:
140 4'th Avenue East
Regina, SK S4N 4Z4
Canada
Telephone number:
306-789-7774
Fax number:
306-789-7779
Lobbyists Details
Employees who lobby for the organization
- Donavon Block,
Vice President |
No public offices held
- Duane Haave,
General Manager |
No public offices held
- Norm Hall,
President |
No public offices held
- Todd Lewis,
Vice President |
No public offices held
- Brenda McBride,
Office Manager |
No public offices held