The Omnibus Bill C-18, the Agricultural Growth Act, went to Parliament for first reading Dec. 9. Passing Bill C-18 would make Canada compliant with UPOV 91, a much more restrictive form of plant breeders’ rights than we currently have. The second part of the act will prepare Canada’s regulatory regime for fast track approval of […] Read more
Stories by Jan Slomp
Farmers used as bait in Fisheries Act
Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz and fisheries minister Keith Ashfield seem to be using farmers as bait to get the public to swallow the changes to the Fisheries Act included in the omnibus Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38). They have stretched credibility to the breaking point by suggesting that the federal government is abandoning protection of […] Read more
Competing for crumbs
Although there is a constant majority of single desk supporters in elections and plebiscites, there are a few grain farmers unhappy with the single desk selling authority of the Canadian Wheat Board. Decades of misinformation spread through the media have done its work. Besides special interest groups and ideologically driven organizations, the Alberta government has […] Read more
