PolitiKit

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Temporary Foreign Worker Program - to seek support in addressing the chronic labour shortages in the agriculture sector by ensuring the agriculture streams are maintained to support farmers' seasonal and temporary needs, while at the same time supporting pathways to permanent residency for experienced temporary foreign workers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Temporary Foreign Worker Program - to seek support in addressing the chronic labour shortages in the agriculture sector by ensuring the agriculture streams are maintained to support farmers' seasonal and temporary needs, while at the same time supporting pathways to permanent residency for experienced temporary foreign workers.

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.

Temporary Foreign Worker Program - to seek support in addressing the chronic labour shortages in the agriculture sector by ensuring the agriculture streams are maintained to support farmers' seasonal and temporary needs, while at the same time supporting pathways to permanent residency for experienced temporary foreign workers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.