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Talks Continue On How To Help Hog Sector: Ritz

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“They know what they have to do. We’ll work with them towards that end.” – GERRY RITZ Federal Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz said the federal government is close to disclosing how much help the hog sector will get with its transition plan. Federal officials were having day-by-day discussions with the Canadian Pork Council, Ritz
Hogs, News

Ag Spending Debate A Chippy One

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Other than in the disjoined repartee of question period, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, like his predecessors, is rarely called to account in the Commons for the spending programs and priorities of his department. That usually happens at the agriculture committee, which receives little attention from the mainstream news media on Parliament Hill. But on May
Cereals, News, Pulses

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

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Canadian wheat and pulse growers need Canada to ratify free trade deals with Peru and Colombia to stay competitive with Argentina and the United States. Wheat import tariffs have historically been as high as 17 per cent into Peru and 15 per cent into Colombia. Without a free trade deal, tariffs could cut Canadian grain
Cereals, Opinion

Good Riddance To C-13

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Farmers should be grateful that Bill C-13, a bill to amend the Canada Grain Act, failed to make it through Parliament. The bill was removed from consideration for second reading by a motion supported by all three opposition parties. The motion called for the bill to be brought back to Parliament in six months, but
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Listeria Committee Back In Gear

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Government and opposition MPs on a special Commons subcommittee investigating last summer’s listeria outbreak have ironed out their differences and will begin questioning witnesses in late April. The first meeting of the subcommittee turned into a two-hour quarrel when NDP MP Malcolm Allen proposed an extension of the committee’s investigation to the end of the
Cereals, Opinion

People Before Politics: Harper Has Failed To Deliver

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For the past three years, the Harper government has been criss-crossing the country making announcement after announcement, promise after promise to Canadian farmers. Big commitments were made to help with things like cost of production, to help build processing capacity and to help farmers create practical programs on the ground. Unfor tunately, Stephen Harper and
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Federal COP Program Canned: Easter

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The federal government’s $100-million-per-year program to help farmers cope with high costs of production (COP) seems to have been cancelled without paying out to farmers at all, Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter says. “The Conservative government promised a program, created it, and for no apparent reason that makes sense, cancelled it,” Easter said in a
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Ritz Gets Facts Wrong On CGC Security Program

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“We need to make sure security actually provides security for farmers.” – Gerry Ritz Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told a radio interviewer last week the existing Canadian Grain Commission security provisions for grain companies that fail don’t work and should be scrapped. In an interview with Golden West Radio’s farm broadcaster Kelvin Heppner, Ritz said
Cereals, News

Ritz Asks CWB To Allow Full Federal Audit

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Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has taken the Canadian Wheat Board up on its invitation to have federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser review its risk management practices. Going one further, however, Ritz also wants Fraser’s office to conduct “a full audit of all operations” at the CWB, the minister said in a release last Thursday,

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