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Agriculture committee Borders and inspections are not the responsibility of our department but of the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Both of these agencies have funds to do inspections. They have an approach—
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee For the most part, these are amounts that provincial programs did not spend in 2018 and have been carried forward to 2019. That is in the supplementary estimates.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Quite honestly, we're still in the stage of scoping out what that could include.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee The advisory services and that kind of work does come to organizations like the Business Development Canada. I think the regional development agencies are also sometimes involved in the food processing sector in particular. We are going through a bit of a scoping phase to look a
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I can't speak to the impetus, because obviously it came from the Prime Minister or the minister. I guess what I would say is that I understand that the context would be around how we better align our efforts to help the sector grow. Maybe that would be the simplest way for me to
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee We have existing tools, obviously, through our own programming, through the trade commissioner service, so I think we're looking at some of the challenges we face and whether there are aspects of those existing tools or other things that we can bring to the table that might help.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Maybe more broadly, obviously, as an export-oriented sector; the agriculture and agri-food sector has very export-oriented, very diverse markets across the world. I think that has a lot of benefits and lots of opportunities. Obviously it brings some challenges too, in terms of wo
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee I think the main point would be the local food infrastructure fund that the minister mentioned of $50 million. I think there are aspects of that in terms of creating a bit more capacity in communities to, in many cases, just ensure there is food, whether local or from elsewhere,
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee The sectors or the regions?
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee We are trying to keep it consistent between the federal and provincial governments. The way we work closely together is a bit unique in the world. We share the cost of the programs. We've created a series of programs that are effective and are aimed at the whole sector across the
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee —we can look at them to see if it could be useful as another tool.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee In terms of risk management programs, I would say that we already have two approaches. It's not emergency funds, but that's the kind of the approach we're talking about here. The first is AgriInvest. These are savings accounts where the government matches producer contributions.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee Yes. It's up to them to choose.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee AgriRecovery is the other program I wanted to mention. It's designed to meet certain needs in the event of a disaster, such as flooding. We start the process at the request of the provinces. This allows for a quick response in such situations. Our goal is to help producers to me
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes
Agriculture committee That's about the tax and other measures that might be specific to reducing the financial barriers around the intergenerational transfer of farms. That's something the minister referenced that she's working on with the Minister of Finance.
March 12th, 2020Committee meeting
Chris Forbes