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Food security is an issue in this election for 54 per cent of Canadians. (FatCamera/E+/Getty Images)
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Food, farming not expected to be big election issues

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Canadians don’t think that food and agriculture will be a significant issue in the current federal election. A survey conducted Sept. 9 and released Tuesday by Angus Reid Global with the support of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab shows 31 per cent of Canadians believe food and agriculture will be a prime electoral issue during
Farmit Manitoba, Opinion, Other

Opinion: Rural Manitoba overlooked in election

It seems the parties have decided everything outside the Perimeter Highway isn’t worth talking about

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In the 24-7 news cycle we live in, it’s hard for us all to take the time and consider what might be coming down the road. We seemingly lack the ability to see past today or tomorrow because we are so inundated with information that we simply can’t begin to consider what lies ahead. That’s
Manitoba’s agriculture minister Ralph Eichler, shown here at an Aug. 27 pre-election forum hosted by the Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association, easily held his riding of Lakeside in the Sept. 10 provincial election. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Geralyn Wichers)

Ag minister returned, ag critic downed in Manitoba vote

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Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives easily kept their agriculture minister while hanging onto a marginally slimmer majority government in Tuesday’s provincial election. Ralph Eichler, the Tories’ ag minister since 2016 and the MLA for the Interlake-area constituency of Lakeside since 2003, defeated New Democrat challenger Dan Rugg of Elie on Tuesday night by a spread of 4,340
Two parties have pledged to change the province’s education tax system.
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Election 2019: Education tax relief promised in provincial election campaign

KAP welcomes the announcement, but says it needs details

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For decades farmers have complained taxing farmland to help fund education is unfair, now two parties have promised to scrap education taxes on all property, including farmland and houses, in the dying days of the provincial election. The Progressive Conservative (PC) Party of Manitoba announced Sept. 3, education taxes on property would be phased out
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Election 2019: Supporting farmers doesn’t win votes in Winnipeg

House taxes were focus of announcement

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The Progressive Conservative party’s promise to phase out education taxes on all property, including farmland, is a huge win for Manitoba farmers and the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), says University of Manitoba political studies professor, Christopher Adams. But the news release announcing the pledge doesn’t mention farmers at all and instead focuses on the tax
A re-elected PC government aims to raise the ethanol requirement in fuel to 10 per cent from 8.5 per cent and the biodiesel requirement to five per cent from two per cent.
Farmit Manitoba, Local news, News, Other

Election 2019: Provincial candidates give little reaction to biofuel mandate promise


Progressive Conservative pledge would more than double biodiesel level

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Electoral candidates at a recent forum had little to say about the Progressive Conservative promise to increase the biofuel and ethanol requirements in Manitoba. “Certainly we’re excited for that opportunity,” said Minister of Agriculture Ralph Eichler, adding he hoped the other provinces would follow suit. Premier Brian Pallister announced on August 27 that a PC
From top left: Martha Jo Willard, Green party candidate for Notre Dame, Terry Hayward, Liberal candidate for Lac du Bonnet, Mitch Obach, NDP candidate for Selkirk, Ralph Eichler, PC minister of agriculture and MLA for Lakeside.
Farmit Manitoba, Local news, News, Other

Election 2019: Electoral forum raises rural issues

The event saw candidates from four provincial parties duke it out over infrastructure, trade, the environment, and Crown land reform

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An electoral forum on agriculture saw candidates get heated about rural infrastructure problems, and take swings at the Pallister government on trade and land reform. The Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association on August 27 brought together candidates from the four provincial parties to answer questions from commodity groups and farmers. Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler
PC leader Brian Pallister says a new economic development office in Brandon will cater to rural development if the party is re-elected to government.
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Election 2019: Pallister promises rural economic development office

PCs say office would become new go-to resource for rural industry

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Manitoba’s Progressive Con­ser­vatives say they want to streamline rural economic development and, to that end, they have promised a central office in Brandon if re-elected. The new economic development office became the latest promise on the PC campaign trail Aug. 29, during a media event in Brandon. “The office itself is not designed to just
KAP’s Bill Campbell says there’s a need to ensure rural infrastructure is part of any value-added strategy.
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Election 2019: Parties promise infrastructure spending

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ELECTION KAP says rural infrastructure must be renewed to allow for value-added production

Both Brian Pallister and Wab Kinew have promised renewed investment in infrastructure if elected. What remains to be seen is how this will address the rural infrastructure needs Keystone Agricultural Producers called a key election issue. “The $350-million-a-year provincial spending (on) infrastructure does not come close to dealing with the $11-billion infrastructure deficit our province

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