Mr. Scott Pellow at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On January 31st, 2022. See this statement in context.

January 31st, 2022 / 12:45 p.m.

Executive Director, Planning, Coordination and Disaster Assessment Division, Business Risk Management Programs Directorate, Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food

Scott Pellow

The AgriRecovery process starts when a province makes a formal request to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to start an assessment. Once the province has done that, that really initiates the process to create a task team to study the disaster event and look at the criteria that are part of the AgriRecovery framework to see how that disaster event meets those criteria.

As we complete that assessment, we're exploring the level of the significant impact and the significant costs that are there. We're exploring what current programs can respond—

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