Canada’s agriculture sector stands at the threshold of generational opportunity — and existential risk.
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Infrastructure plan required post-election
Canada should take advantage of the current trade disruption to chart a diversified growth path
If he were prime minister for a day, Murad Al-Katib would immediately spend $100 billion on trade infrastructure.
Pest Management Regulatory Agency under fire for pesticide regulatory reform
The crop protection industry claims the federal government’s regulatory burden may ‘drive innovation out of Canada’
Canada ranks 32 out of 38 member countries for administrative and regulatory burden, says the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Loaded language in bill requires further attention
A private member’s bill working its way through Parliament doesn’t sound controversial at first blush. Most parliamentarians don’t seem to have thought so, either. Bill C-293, the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act, was approved by the House of Commons in June by a vote of 164-144, albeit with reservations from some MPs, and is now […] Read more
Regulatory status quo won’t work for gene editing: report
A new report urges the federal government to a take a different approach to regulating the next generation of pest control products. On Nov. 8, the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) published a report called Regulating Gene Edited Organisms for Pest Control. The CCA said these new technologies, broadly described as gene editing, may require […] Read more
