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Peace region MP Chris Warkentin, shown here in October 2011 at the Canadian Council for Aboroginal Business’ Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Conference in Ottawa, has been named as the Conservatives’ critic for agriculture and agri-food. (Entrepreneurship2011.indigenous.net)

Peace MP named Conservatives’ lead ag critic

A contractor turned politician from Alberta’s northwestern Peace region is the new ag critic in Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Chris Warkentin, the Conservatives’ MP for Peace River since 2006 and, as of last month, the MP for Grande Prairie-Mackenzie, was named Friday by interim leader Rona Ambrose as the critic for agriculture and agri-food, with

Most of farm file’s handlers to return to Commons

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 20, 2015

Most federal parliamentarians with experience in the agriculture and agri-food portfolio will be back in the House of Commons under a new majority Liberal government. As of Tuesday morning, prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected or leading in 184 of 338 seats, for a decisive majority following Monday’s federal election. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives return

Markets

NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News October 2, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s main opposition party said Friday that if it won an Oct. 19 election, it would not feel bound by the terms of a major Pacific trade deal the ruling Conservatives are negotiating in the United States. The New Democrats, currently trailing third in the polls, said in a letter to

Cereals, News

Conservatives Pull Out All Stops To Ram CWB Bill Into Law

By Alex Binkley October 27, 2011

CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA The Conservatives have the legislation to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its wheat and barley monopoly on a forced march through Parliament. Second reading debate began Oct. 19 and was set to conclude Oct. 24 as theCo-operatorwas going to press. The government will use its majority to give the bill

Cereals, News

Former CWB Minister Reg Alcock Passes

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 20, 2011

Reg Alcock, the Winnipeg member of Parliament who led then-prime minister Paul Martin s political defence of the Canadian Wheat Board, died early last Friday of a reported heart attack at age 63. Alcock, the MP for the Winnipeg South riding from 1993 to 2006, served in Martin s cabinet from late 2003 to early

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

In “Delaying the drainage” (editorial, Feb. 3) you referred to the Red River Basin report about storing water upstream, with an estimated 885,000 acres of one foot of storage being adequate to reduce peak levels. This probably wouldn’t take up 885,000 acres because some storage would be more than one foot deep, but nonetheless it

News

Atamanenko Takes Motion To End C-474 Hearings Personally

By Allan Dawson November 11, 2010

Norma l l y, mot ions such as the one to extend hearings on Bill C-474, are rubber stamped by Parliament. But Alex Atamanenko, the NDP MP for B.C. Southern Interior, says the Conservatives engineered the motion’s defeat in the House of Commons Oct. 27. Atamanenko, who is a member of the House of Commons’

Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

More Pros And Cons Heard On Bill C-474

By Allan Dawson October 21, 2010

Farmers welcome new crop varieties, but they also want regulations to ensure those crops don’t ruin markets, Paul Gregory told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee during a hearing on Bill C-474 broadcast live on the Internet Oct. 5. “I talk to farmers every day,” said Gregory, president of Interlake Forage Seeds Inc., near Fisher

Crops

Ontario MP Tries To Cut Red Tape For Farmers

By Alex Binkley March 25, 2010

Ontario Conservative MP Bev Shipley wants to cut the red tape slowing the introduction of new agriculture technologies for farmers. He’s presented a motion in the Commons, which, if approved, would spare companies the expense and paper shuffling involved in repeating research on their developments already approved in other countries. He wants the government “to

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Tories Accused Of Stalling On SRM Subsidy

By Ron Friesen December 17, 2009

Conservative members on the House of Commons agricultural committee are being accused of obstruction in blocking a recommendation for financial aid to Canada’s cattle processors. In a December 11 letter to the beef industry, opposition committee members accused Tory members of repeatedly preventing a vote on a motion to recommend subsidizing the slaughter of older

Daily Network News

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