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What do you want to know before voting in Canada’s federal election?

Looking for answers to the questions that concern you the most? Let us know

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Glacier FarmMedia is dedicated to covering the 2025 federal election with your interests as farmers as our lens. Our team of reporters will be speaking with politicians across Canada during the five-week election campaign. What do YOU want to ask them? Have your say below and we’ll update this page with your responses at bottom.
Abbotsford-Mission MLA Pam Alexis speaks on B.C. Agriculture Day in the provincial legislature on Oct. 25, 2022. (Legislative Assembly Of B.C. video screengrab via Facebook)
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B.C.’s ag minister downed in fraught election

Governing party to be confirmed next week as votes recounted

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Pam Alexis, the minister of agriculture and food for David Eby's New Democrats since late 2022, was defeated in her constituency of Abbotsford-Mission in Saturday night's election by Conservative challenger Reann Gasper, by a spread of almost 2,700 votes.
Manitoba’s incumbent NDP ag critic Diljeet Brar and Tory ag minister Derek Johnson appeared with Green Party leader Janine Gibson and Liberal candidate Neil Stewart (l-r) on Sept. 12, 2023 at a forum hosted by the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Geralyn Wichers)

Manitoba legislature’s agriculture leaders to return under new management

NDP scores majority over incumbent Tories

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Manitoba’s incumbent agriculture minister and lead opposition agriculture critic are headed back to the legislature — but under a new seating plan. Opposition leader Wab Kinew’s New Democrats are expected to form a majority government coming out of Tuesday’s provincial election, unseating incumbent premier Heather Stefanson’s Progressive Conservatives. Just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, NDP candidates
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Comment: The rules keep changing on Crown land

Changes from the old community-based allocation system equate to flexible red tape

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CROWN LAND Changes from the old community-based allocation system equate to flexible red tape

In 2018, the provincial Progressive Conservatives began instituting new regulations under the Crown Lands Amendment Act, in response to a request from the Manitoba Beef Producers who, in 2017, asked for the agricultural Crown land lease allocation system to be changed from its long-standing community and Manitoba farmer-centred points-based system to a pure auction system.
Farmers, your political engagement matters
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Farmers, your political engagement matters

This election, don’t lose the chance to bring farming to the forefront

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I have a message for every farmer in Manitoba, no matter what crop they grow or type of animals under their care: Now is the time to engage with all local candidates. Governance matters. On Oct. 3, Manitobans will elect 57 members of the legislative assembly. Every one of them will influence, for good or
Provincial party leaders go head-to-head during a pre-election debate hosted by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities in April.
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AMM puts heat on infrastructure as next week’s election looms

Municipal funding should be higher on the priority list, association says

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Municipal leaders say all parties appear ready to provide steady funding for municipalities, but aren’t giving infrastructure enough airtime as the provincial election draws near. “We need to see more,” said Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett in a Sept. 20 news release. “Building and maintaining core infrastructure – from water and wastewater to broadband – is a
A concept of the promised Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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College’s sustainable ag centre draws campaign commitments

ACC's planned ag programming hub a topic at pre-election debate

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Assiniboine Community College’s new hub for agricultural programming has been years in the making but, in a rare show of political common ground, all three of Manitoba’s major parties now say they’d like to help see the project done. The college’s promised Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture came up Tuesday during a leaders’ debate
Provincial election candidates speak at a forum hosted by the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association (L-R: Diljeet Brar (NDP), Derek Johnson (PC), Janine Gibson (Green), Neil Stewart (Liberal).
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Electoral candidates take on ag issues

Ag Issues at the Polls: From property tax to rural health care, here’s what candidates from Manitoba’s major political parties have to say

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Agriculture representatives from four of Manitoba’s political parties traded promises and verbal jabs over the education property tax, rural health care and water policy when they met at a Sept. 12 election forum. The Winnipeg event was organized by the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters. Candidates answered questions provided by Manitoba ag groups and had
Leaseholders pack into a fall 2019 meeting in Ste. Rose du Lac soon after the release of new Crown land regulations.
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PCs promise to lower Crown land rents

Announcement commits to make rent reductions permanent

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Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives say they will make a 50 per cent rent reduction on forage Crown land leases permanent if they are re-elected. The provincial government announced the reductions as a temporary measure this summer, before dropping the writ for the 2023 election. At the time, the province linked the move to production challenges faced

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