Registry of Lobbyists
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International Trade
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Advocating for resources for Border enforcement of dairy regulations.
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Policies or Program
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Internal Trade
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Agreement on Internal Trade
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Animal Welfare
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Animal Health - development of the Animal Health Canada with CFIA and AAFC.
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Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Canada's position on agriculture at the UN Food System Summit.
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Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Canada-EU Trade Agreement, CUSMA, CPTTP and Canada-UK.
The components within these agreements that we are interested in are agriculture and protection/exemption of supply management.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Consumer Issues
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Canadian Agricultural Products Act with respect to standards for ice cream and yogurt.
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Regulation
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Climate, Environment
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Climate Change / Environment
Farm practices for greenhouse gas mitigation; documenting programs that exist provincially and federally that are available to dairy producers; promoting best management practices.
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Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Health
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Consultation on Vitamin D fortification.
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Policies or Program
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Health
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Consultations on supplemented foods.
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Policies or Program
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Industry
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Contribute to a Vision Exercise on the future of dairy with AAFC.
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare
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Development of the Code of Practice for the Care and handling of Dairy Cattle in cooperation with CFIA's activities in OIE (Organisation mondiale de la Santé Animale).
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Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Discretionary Food Fortification
Governed by Food and Drug Act and the Agricultural Products Marketing Act.
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Regulation
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Discretionary Food Fortification policy of Health Canada. DFC has particular interest in the discretionary food fortification of non-nutritious foods and vitamin fortification of dairy products.
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Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Ensure the appropriate allocation of the Tariff Rate Quotas under the Comprehensive Review of the Allocation and Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas for Dairy, Poultry and Egg Products.
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Explicit and implied Health Claims related to dairy and non-dairy products
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare, Health
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Federal framework and action plan on antimicrobial us and antimicrobial resistance.
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Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as it applies to the labelling and advertising of dairy products
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as they apply to all dairy product compositional standards, in particular those on cheese and yogourt.
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Regulation
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Industry, Science and Technology
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Growing Forward.
This is a federal-provincial agreement with oversight for many of our issues (Business Risk Management, Research, etc.)
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Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Guide for Food labelling and Advertising in respect of all dairy products and use of dairy terminology (modifiers, highlighted ingredients).
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Industry
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Implementation of a Grocers Code of Conduct.
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Implementation of new tariff rate quotas for milk protein isolates as per GATT Article XXVIII, Amendment to Customs Tariff (tariff line 3504). Work with Finance Canada, AAFC and DFAIT on implementation and allocation of said TRQ.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation, Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Implementation of Special Agricultural Safeguard for supply-managed products, dairy products in particular.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Industry
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Ingredients
Industry stakeholders discussion on domestic ingredient strategy, pricing of components, marketing of ingredients. Involves discussions with the Canadian Dairy Commission.
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Regulation, Policies or Program
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International Trade
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Mitigation measures for Trade Agreements.
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Policies or Program
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Health
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Modernizing of official methods: consultation on PDCAAS.
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare
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Plant and Animal Health Strategy - Marketing through NFAHW council but owned by CFIA.
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare
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proAction - implementation and administration of the proAction program.
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Policies or Program
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Industry, International Trade
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Product of Canada consultations
Dairy Farmers of Canada participated in federal government consultations on regulations pertaining to "Product of Canada".
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Policies or Program
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Industry, Science and Technology
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Quality Milk Program - Implementation and administration of the Quality Milk Program under the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program of AAFC.
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Policies or Program
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Industry
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Research
Under "Canadian Agricultural Partnership", the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food announced a research cluster, in cooperation with Dairy Farmers of Canada, worth $12M.
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Regulation, Policies or Program, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
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Health
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Review the DRIs for macronutrients.
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare, Industry
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Traceability
Under "Agricultural Partnership", the establishment of regulations for traceability. Collaborating with provincial and federal governments in the determination of private and public interests and in discussions with Ministers re government/industry share of costs.
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Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation, Policies or Program
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Consumer Issues, Health
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Trans fats, Saturated fats, Sodium and Sugar as it relates to dairy products, Food Guide recommendations and nutritional labelling.
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Policies or Program
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Animal Welfare
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Use of Veterinary Natural Health Products in dairy livestock production - Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada.
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Policies or Program
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International Trade
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WTO (World Trade Organization) Negotiations on Agriculture as it relates to supply management.
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Policies or Program
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Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is the national lobby, policy and promotion organization representing all dairy producers in Canada. The main objective of DFC is to promote the interests of producers by coordinationg the actions of dairy producer organizations on all issues of national scope and collaborating with relevant agencies in the elboration of national policies affecting the Canadian dairy industry. The promotional objective is to increase the sale sof dairy products to the financial benefit of producers and the health benefit of consumers.
Jacques Lefebvre, Chief Executive Officer
Address:
45 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4
Canada
Telephone number:
613-236-9997