Agriculture & Food plateformes
Voici ce que les candidats Simcoe North, et leurs partis, promettent.Agricultural business
Liberal
- Make Canada the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products by 2025.
- Merge existing financial and advisory services into Farm Credit Canada.
- Increase Farm and Food Development Canada's capital lending capability to $5b/year.
Canada Grain Act
Conservative
- Modernize the Canada Grain Act and Canadian Grain Commission, with a focus on consultation with farmers.
- Return $130 million in overcharged user fees from the CGC to farmers.
Diversity of growers
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtTo make it simpler for young people and
women to get into agriculture and build a
life on the farm, we’ll work with the provinces
to improve training opportunities across the
country, and provide low-cost start-up loans
for new farmers. And we’ll provide support
for succession planning and end the unfair tax
treatment of family farm transfers – making
it easier for family farms to stay in the family.
Liberal
Farmer protections
Liberal
Food waste
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtThe way we grow crops, raise livestock, and
use food also has an impact on our climate
future – and nutrition for all Canadians. We’ll
work to connect communities to farmers
through local food hubs, and develop a
national food waste strategy to reduce
the huge amounts of food that currently go
to waste in Canada.
Green farming
Green
- Establish emissions targets.
- Fund research and support for farmers shifting to organic and regenerative farming systems.
- Renew the Environmental Farm Plan Program to help farmers protect wildlife habitat, maintain water quality.
- Improve soil quality.
Establish climate change emission targets for all components of the food system, including nitrogen fertilizer use, livestock production and transportation.
Fund research and extend support for farmers shifting from conventional to organic and regenerative farming systems which work with nature, not against it, to produce food.
Renew the national Environmental Farm Plan Program to help farmers protect wildlife habitat areas and marginal lands, maintain water quality in streams, lakes and aquifers, and retain and improve soil quality, increase carbon sequestration and decrease water requirements.
Restore the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation measures for adaptation to drought conditions.
Restructure Canada’s Business Risk Management Programs to help farmers cope with climate risk, with the focus on disaster assistance.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Indigenous food sovereignty
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtOur government will support Indigenous
food sovereignty, working in partnership with
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities
to expand access to healthy food, including
traditional and country foods. Working together
with northern communities, we’re committed
to reforming the Nutrition North program to
improve food security for northern families.
Locally-grown food
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtTo build on the pride and quality of
Canadian agricultural products, we’ll work
with producers along the supply chain to
increase the amount of Canadian food that
is sold, processed, and consumed in local
and regional markets. It’s a challenge to grow a business without
modern communications infrastructure.
That’s why New Democrats will make sure
that high-speed broadband and cell phone
infrastructure is available to connect our
farmers and rural communities to the services
and tools they need, no matter where in the
country they are. Rural Canadians should
be as connected to markets, opportunities,
and each other as anyone who lives in
urban Canada.
Green
- Invest $2.5m/year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture.
- Set targets for domestic production.
- Rooftop gardens.
- Re-establish infrastructure for local food production.
- Preserve and record existing farmland.
Invest $2.5 million per year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture and help new farmers get started.
Set a target to replace a third of Canada’s food imports with domestic production, increasing regional food self-reliance and returning 15 billion food dollars back into our economy.
Support rooftop and community gardens and urban food production systems to increase access to local food.
Assist in re-establishing the infrastructure for local food production in canneries, slaughterhouses and other value-added food processing.
Protect supply management systems while allowing production for local markets outside this system.
Reinstate the Canada Land Inventory program to provide a comprehensive record of existing and potential agricultural land.
Provide effective fiscal incentives to other levels of government to preserve farmlands under their jurisdictions.
From Election Plan 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Mental health of growers
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtMental health matters, and too many Canadian
farmers are living with high levels of stress,
anxiety and depression. We can do more to
provide targeted help – and a New Democrat
government will bring together farmers and
the provinces to develop a national strategy
to address mental health challenges facing
farmers, and to ensure that farmers can get
the help they need, when they need it.
Canola is an example of a home-grown
success story with roots in public research.
To keep Canadian agriculture on the cutting
edge of knowledge and innovation, and provide
direct economic benefit to our farmers, New
Democrats will invest in public agricultural
research and data collection. We’ll also ensure
that rail transportation treats farmers fairly
and helps them get their products to market
efficiently and affordably.
Nutrition North
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtOur government will support Indigenous
food sovereignty, working in partnership with
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities
to expand access to healthy food, including
traditional and country foods. Working together
with northern communities, we’re committed
to reforming the Nutrition North program to
improve food security for northern families.
Payment protection for growers
NDP
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtOur fresh fruit and vegetable producers
grow healthy, nutritious food for Canadian
families and they support local economies
across the country. Many of them also
depend on the ability to export their products
to buyers in the U.S., but without a reciprocal
payment protection program in place, the
financial risks of exporting can be too high.
That’s why New Democrats will introduce a
payment protection program for produce
growers and take immediate steps to restore
protection for growers selling to the U.S. under
the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
Supply management
NDP
An NDP government will make sure that farmers are fully compensated for the losses they have incurred, and will defend Canadian agricultural products like canola from unfair retaliation in overseas markets.
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtNew Democrats have a plan for a Canadian
Food Strategy that will take a whole-ofgovernment approach to address regional
needs and priorities by investing in our
agricultural communities, supporting young
and new farmers and taking steps to ensure
that rural livelihoods are good and sustainable.
Supply management protects our family farms,
rural communities, and hundreds of thousands
of jobs. New Democrats are committed to
fully protecting supply management and
ensuring reciprocity in all trade negotiations,
and supporting our supply managed sectors
as they innovate and grow. We’ll make sure that
farmers are fully compensated for the losses
they have incurred in Liberal and Conservative
trade negotiations, and we’ll defend Canadian
agricultural products like canola from unfair
retaliation in overseas markets.
Liberal
Treatment of farm animals
Green
Adopt animal welfare legislation to prevent inhumane treatment of farm animals including in intensive factory farming operations. This will set minimum standards of treatment and have a timetable for phasing out intensive factory farming and other inhumane animal husbandry practices. It will set standards for distances live animals can be transported, and conditions for animals in slaughterhouses and auctions.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Youth nutrition
NDP
New Democrats will partner with provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities to work towards a national school nutrition program that will give every child in Canada access to healthy food and the food literacy skills to make healthy choices for life. We'll aim to make culturally-appropriate food available to children in every community in Canada, so that all children can grow and learn.
From A New Deal for People, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Angelique Belcourt
Candidat du NDP dans votre districtNew Democrats will partner with provinces,
territories, municipalities, and Indigenous
communities to work towards a national
school nutrition program that will give every
child in Canada access to healthy food, and
the food literacy skills to make healthy choices
for life. We’ll aim to make culturally-appropriate
food available to children in every community in
Canada, so that all children can grow and learn.