PolitiKit

Dedicated Agriculture and Agri-Food Infrastructure Funding Stream - to establish a dedicated agriculture and agri-food infrastructure stream within federal programming to improve access, coordination, and impact of national infrastructure projects for the agricultural sector. A persistent gap exists for mid-scale, regionally specific projects that fall between innovation programming and large-scale infrastructure programming. Key needs for agriculture include logistics corridors, processing and storage capacity, water and irrigation systems, energy infrastructure, and digital connectivity.

National Food Security Strategy - Agriculture should be treated as a national priority, given its central role in food security, economic growth, and global stability. A national food security strategy should put farmers and food production at its core by improving access to capital, protecting farmland, stabilizing input supplies, accelerating innovation through more efficient regulation, expanding value-added processing, addressing labour shortages, and modernizing transportation and supply chain infrastructure through a whole-of-government approach.

Agricultural Impact Assessments: Mandate agricultural impact assessments (AIAs) for all federal infrastructure projects, including defence-related projects, and federal land claim decisions that may affect the quality or availability of agricultural land in Canada.

Critical Farm Input Strategy - to establish a coordinated approach to ensuring Canadian farmers have reliable and timely access to essential inputs such as fertilizer, crop protection products, energy, and veterinary tools that are fundamental to food production, yet availability is increasingly vulnerable to supply chain volatility, geopolitical instability, and regulatory barriers.

Agricultural Impact Assessments: Mandate agricultural impact assessments (AIAs) for all federal infrastructure projects, including defence-related projects, and federal land claim decisions that may affect the quality or availability of agricultural land in Canada.

Expanded Eligibility for Farm Rollover Provisions - expanding farm rollover provisions to a broader range of family members, including nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and stepchildren, to reduce tax barriers to intergenerational farm transfers and sustain investment in the sector as Canada's farm population continues to age, while recognizing the multi-family nature of many farming operations in Canada

Advanced Payments Program: Permanently increase the interest-free portion of the Advanced Payments Program to $350,000, streamline administration requirements, and reverse AAFC's recent changes to lending policy requiring administrators to classify all clients as "high risk" for four years regardless of their credit standing.

Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance: Introduce a permanent Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance across all classes of farm equipment that would allow producers to depreciate 100% of their capital allocated to purchases of farm equipment in the first fiscal year.

Critical Farm Input Strategy - to establish a coordinated approach to ensuring Canadian farmers have reliable and timely access to essential inputs such as fertilizer, crop protection products, energy, and veterinary tools that are fundamental to food production, yet availability is increasingly vulnerable to supply chain volatility, geopolitical instability, and regulatory barriers.

Dedicated Agriculture and Agri-Food Infrastructure Funding Stream - to establish a dedicated agriculture and agri-food infrastructure stream within federal programming to improve access, coordination, and impact of national infrastructure projects for the agricultural sector. A persistent gap exists for mid-scale, regionally specific projects that fall between innovation programming and large-scale infrastructure programming. Key needs for agriculture include logistics corridors, processing and storage capacity, water and irrigation systems, energy infrastructure, and digital connectivity.

Agricultural Impact Assessments: Mandate agricultural impact assessments (AIAs) for all federal infrastructure projects, including defence-related projects, and federal land claim decisions that may affect the quality or availability of agricultural land in Canada.

Critical Farm Input Strategy - to establish a coordinated approach to ensuring Canadian farmers have reliable and timely access to essential inputs such as fertilizer, crop protection products, energy, and veterinary tools that are fundamental to food production, yet availability is increasingly vulnerable to supply chain volatility, geopolitical instability, and regulatory barriers.

Critical Farm Input Strategy - to establish a coordinated approach to ensuring Canadian farmers have reliable and timely access to essential inputs such as fertilizer, crop protection products, energy, and veterinary tools that are fundamental to food production, yet availability is increasingly vulnerable to supply chain volatility, geopolitical instability, and regulatory barriers.

Bill C-273, An Act to amend the Feeds Act, the Fertilizers Act, the Seeds Act, the Pest Control Products Act and the Food and Drugs Act - with respect to the need to accelerate access to new tools and technologies by leveraging trusted jurisdictions' risk and science-based decisions to streamline approval timelines and use use mechanisms such as conditional approvals to bring safe, innovative products to market faster for the agricultural sector.

Economic Growth Plan for the Agriculture Sector - To create a focused plan for economic growth in the agriculture sector and support food security by making agriculture and agri-food, including indigenous agriculture, a national priority with clear targets for production growth, investment in innovation, value-added processing, exports, and a stable labour supply.

Trade and Transportation Infrastructure - to prioritize and ensure the reliability of trade and transportation infrastructure that supports the agriculture sector, including rail, port and cold chain infrastructure as well as rural infrastructure needed to reach national corridors.

Economic Growth Plan for the Agriculture Sector - To create a focused plan for economic growth in the agriculture sector and support food security by making agriculture and agri-food, including indigenous agriculture, a national priority with clear targets for production growth, investment in innovation, value-added processing, exports, and a stable labour supply.

Modernize Risk Management Tools - Ensure business risk management tools for the agriculture and agri-food sector are responsive to current climate and market conditions, and ensure adequate mitigation measures are in place to support the sector in ongoing trade and climate disruptions.

Agricultural Impact Assessments: Mandate agricultural impact assessments (AIAs) for all federal infrastructure projects, including defence-related projects, and federal land claim decisions that may affect the quality or availability of agricultural land in Canada.

Labour Disruptions: Launch consultations with industry representatives and implicated stakeholders to explore options to address the root causes of labour disruptions. Modernize labour laws to establish a clear, transparent, and expedited process for resolving labour disputes and prevent the increasing frequency and severity of labour disruptions that are destabilizing to the Canadian economy.

Canada Grain Act (CGC) - to seek the modernization of the Canada Grain Act to better represent the interests of producers, be more predictable, cost effective and transparent, and increased funding to the CGC to support the public good function of the CGC such as grain quality assurance, while reaffirming the Canadian Grain Commission's mandate to maintain standards and regulate grain handling in the interests of grain producers.

Regulations Supporting Growth Agenda - Ensuring regulations impacting agriculture support a growth agenda by aligning the mandate of government regulators with Canada's food security and agricultural competitiveness goals, and by reducing regulatory burden.

Trade and Transportation Infrastructure - to prioritize and ensure the reliability of trade and transportation infrastructure that supports the agriculture sector, including rail, port and cold chain infrastructure as well as rural infrastructure needed to reach national corridors.

Advanced Payments Program: Permanently increase the interest-free portion of the Advanced Payments Program to $350,000, streamline administration requirements, and reverse AAFC's recent changes to lending policy requiring administrators to classify all clients as "high risk" for four years regardless of their credit standing.

Regulations Supporting Growth Agenda - Ensuring regulations impacting agriculture support a growth agenda by aligning the mandate of government regulators with Canada's food security and agricultural competitiveness goals, and by reducing regulatory burden.

Trade and Transportation Infrastructure - to prioritize and ensure the reliability of trade and transportation infrastructure that supports the agriculture sector, including rail, port and cold chain infrastructure as well as rural infrastructure needed to reach national corridors.