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Subject Matters

• Agriculture
• Broadcasting
• Consumer Issues
• Employment and Training
• Energy
• Environment
• Financial Institutions
• Fisheries
• Health
• Industry
• Intellectual Property
• Internal Trade
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Labour
• Regional Development
• Science and Technology
• Small Business
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Agricultural safety net Bill or Resolution 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.
• Biotechnology Bill or Resolution that ensures innovation within the agricultural industry, protection of the health and environment of Canadians, ensures competitive behaviour with regards to the results of biotechnology development, and maintains the rights of farmers to save seed.
• Cruelty to animal bills or resolutions that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Environmental management or endangered species bill or resolution that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Farm safety Bill or Resolution that affects revenues or costs of farms, and maintains and improves the ability of Canadian farmers to ensure the safety of themselves, their families and their employees.
• Food safety, food labeling and food inspection Bill or Resolution that affects the revenues or costs of Canadian farmers, and ensures transparency, truthfulness and strength of Canada's food safety and food labeling system.
• Human resource Bill or Resolution that improves the ability of the Canadian agricultural industry to continually improve the skills of farmers, and have access to skilled, competitive labour.
• Income, business, and Goods and Services taxation Bill or Resolution that ensures the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors.
• International agricultural trade Bill or Resolution to ensure the continued development of Canadian export markets, protection of the interests of the agricultural industry, and protection of the rights of Canadian farmers to choose their own marketing systems. Specific issues are: international trade distorting domestic support, export subsidies, tariffs and market access, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, trade remedy measures, non-tariff trade barriers and the right to choose domestic marketing structures.
• Marketing structure Bill or Resolution to maintain and improve the business environment for Canadian farmers to enable them to work cooperatively and collectively to balance market power inequities in the marketplace and improve farm incomes.
• Pesticide Bills or Resolutions for the purpose of improving the registration and management of pesticides to provide a competitive market for a diversity of farm inputs, while protecting the health and environment of Canadians.
• Transportation Bills and Resolutions that ensure smooth flow of goods, ensures competitive pricing within the transportation industry and protects the safety and rights of access for Canadian farmers.

Policies or Program

• Agricultural safety net policy or program 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.
• Biotechnology policy or program that ensures innovation within the agricultural industry, protection of the health and environment of Canadians, ensures competitive behaviour with regards to the results of biotechnology development, and maintains the rights of farmers to save seed.
• Cruelty to animal policies or programs that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Environmental management or endangered species policy or program that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Farm safety policy or program that affects revenues or costs of farms, and maintains and improves the ability of Canadian farmers to ensure the safety of themselves, their families and their employees.
• Food safety, food labeling and food inspection policy or program that affects the revenues or costs of Canadian farmers, and ensures transparency, truthfulness and strength of Canada's ood safety and food labeling system.
• Human resource policy or program that improves the ability of the Canadian agricultural industry to continually improve the skills of farmers, and have access to skilled, competitive labour.
• Income, business, and Goods and Services taxation policy or program that ensures the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors.
• International agricultural trade policy or program to ensure the continued development of Canadian export markets, protection of the interests of the agricultural industry, and protection of the rights of Canadian farmers to choose their own marketing systems. Specific issues are: international trade distorting domestic support, export subsidies, tariffs and market access, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, trade remedy measures, non-tariff trade barriers and the right to choose domestic marketing structures.
• Marketing structure policy or program to maintain and improve the business environment for Canadian farmers to enable them to work cooperatively and collectively to balance market power inequities in the marketplace and improve farm incomes.
• Pesticide policy or program for the purpose of improving the registration and management of pesticides to provide a competitive market for a diversity of farm inputs, while protecting the health and environment of Canadians.
• Transportation policies and programs that ensure smooth flow of goods, ensures competitive pricing within the transportation industry and protects the safety and rights of access for Canadian farmers.

Regulation

• Agricultural safety net regulation 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.
• Biotechnology regulation that ensures innovation within the agricultural industry, protection of the health and environment of Canadians, ensures competitive behaviour with regards to the results of biotechnology development, and maintains the rights of farmers to save seed.
• Cruelty to animal regulation that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Environmental management or endangered species regulation that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers.
• Farm safety regulation that affects revenues or costs of farms, and maintains and improves the ability of Canadian farmers to ensure the safety of themselves, their families and their employees.
• Food safety, food labeling and food inspection regulation that affects the revenues or costs of Canadian farmers, and ensures transparency, truthfulness and strength of Canada's food safety and food labeling system.
• Human resource regulation that improves the ability of the Canadian agricultural industry to continually improve the skills of farmers, and have access to skilled, competitive labour.
• Income, business, and Goods and Services taxation regulation that ensures the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors.
• International agricultural trade regulation to ensure the continued development of Canadian export markets, protection of the interests of the agricultural industry, and protection of the rights of Canadian farmers to choose their own marketing systems. Specific issues are: international trade distorting domestic support, export subsidies, tariffs and market access, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, trade remedy measures, non-tariff trade barriers and the right to choose domestic marketing structures.
• Marketing structure regulation to maintain and improve the business environment for Canadian farmers to enable them to work cooperatively and collectively to balance market power inequities in the marketplace and improve farm incomes.
• Pesticide regulation for the purpose of improving the registration and management of pesticides to provide a competitive market for a diversity of farm inputs, while protecting the health and environment of Canadians.
• Transportation regulation that ensures smooth flow of goods, ensures competitive pricing within the transportation industry and protects the safety and rights of access for Canadian farmers.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
• Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
• Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian Grain Commission (CGC)
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
• Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
• Canadian Wheat Board (CWB)
• Competition Tribunal (CT)
• Environment Canada
• Farm Credit Canada (FCC)
• Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC)
• Federal Office of Regional Development – Quebec (FORD[Q])
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
• Grain Transportation Agency (GTA)
• Health Canada (HC)
• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
• Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
• Industry Canada
• Members of the House of Commons
• National Energy Board (NEB)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)
• Revenue Canada (RC)
• Senate of Canada
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Transport Canada (TC)

Government institutions added through a monthly communication report

• House of Commons

Address:
21 Florence Street
Ottawa, ON  K2P 0W6
Canada

Telephone number: 613-236-3633  Ext. 2323
Fax number: 613-236-5749  

Client representative

Brigid Rivoire, Executive Director

Parent Company Information

Canadian Federation of Agriculture / La Fédération canadienne de l'agriculture is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.