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 under the Agricultural Policy Framework including changes to Agri-Invest, AgriStability, AgriRecovery, Crop insurance and Livestock insurance
- Consumer Confidence - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Expansion of traceability funding and programming to ensure consumer confidence both domestically and internationally is maintained
- Environmental Sustainability - Lobby Environment Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for expansion of funding for alternate land use support to encourage retention of wetlands and effective management of water and native prairie.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- International Trade Agreements - Lobby Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada - trade negotiators to ensure that access to markets for Saskatchewan/Canadian agricultural products is enhanced
- Labour Development - Employment Insurance Act - Lobby Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) - Service Canada for investment in skills training for individuals to enter into the agricultural workforce.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Agricultural Profitability - Agricultural Growth Act - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to ensure provisions within the Legislation and regulations support investment, growth and profitability within the Agricultural Sector
- Agriculture Profitability - Income Tax Act - Lobby Revenue Canada for increased exemptions for farmer capital gains; enhanced small business taxation rates and allowable farm expenses
- 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 adequate funding of CFIA food inspectors to insure integrity of the food supply chain
- 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 Citizenship and Immigration Canada for changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program to ensure that labour availability for agriculture is maintained.
- Research and Innovation - Lobby Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for increased investment and capacity within the agricultural sector
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Environment - Species at Risk Act - Lobby Environment Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to ensure that Orders issued do not adversly impact on agricultural land owners and that recovery plans are consistent with agricultuarl production
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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Citizenship and Immigration Canada
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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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Environment Canada
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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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Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
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Grain Transportation Agency (GTA)
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Health Canada (HC)
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House of Commons
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Industry Canada
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Members of the 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
No government funding was received during the last completed financial year.
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