Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I want to assure members that we are there to support our farmers. Last year, we had the biggest budget in the history of the agriculture department. It was more than $4 billion. Recently, we have invested $1.5 billion in agri-environmental programming because our fa

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I am here, and we are here, to support farmers day and night, all year long. We are investing in our farmers. We are investing in the agriculture sector. I will talk about the clean technology program, as one example, because we know that farmers need equipment, and

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, AAFC, is not currently divesting the Summerland Research and Development Centre property in whole or in part. Furthermore, this property has not been declared surplus by AAFC. AAFC is bound by the Treasury Board directive on the man

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), to date no funding has been provided to the members of the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council, CFPAC. The CFPAC terms of reference indicate that AAFC will reimburse proper and reasonably incurred travel, accommodation and meal expenses that are

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), Health Canada is the department responsible for the development of the new front-of-package nutrition labelling requirements as part of its broad healthy eating strategy. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, AAFC, supports the objective of the strate

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I have good news for farmers today. I am announcing that we will be increasing the interest-free portion of the advance payments program, for a total of $61 million for over years. The interest-free portion will increase from $100,000 to $250,000.

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, once again, I agree with my colleague that our farmers work extremely hard and that, just like society as a whole, they are faced with very high prices right now for food, inputs and energy. That is why we are helping them in different ways. Last year, the Departmen

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, we are proud that Canada is a very important contributor to food security in the world. The idea behind reducing the emissions caused by fertilizer does not mean reducing fertilizer. Actually, our producers are engaging significantly in the 4R practices, which are

Agriculture and Agri-food  Mr. Speaker, again, I want to reassure my colleague. Our government is the one that has supported producers the most. We had a historic budget for the agricultural department last year of more than $4 billion. It did not happen with the previous government, I can assure the memb

Agriculture and Agri-food  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The agricultural sector must be an important partner in our fight against climate change. That is why I was very pleased to recently announce 47 projects totalling $15 million under the agricultural clean technology program. Th

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Madam Speaker, as you know, we are extremely concerned about the situation of rising input prices. That is why we are working closely with the various agricultural industries to help our farmers. For example, we made changes to the advance payments program so that farmers can acc

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, as members know, our goal is to reduce emissions caused by fertilizers. This is not the same as using less fertilizer. We fully understand that fertilizers are important for our agricultural producers and for our food security. We are working closely with the indus

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I assure my colleagues that we are here to support our farmers and increase production. At the moment, there is an illegal war happening in Ukraine. We know that Ukraine is a major producer. Canadian farmers want to do more. Our government is there to support them i

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, once again, our government has provided unprecedented support to agricultural producers. A total of $4 billion—

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, I repeat, our government has done more than any other to help our agricultural producers. We invested $4 billion to support them last year. That is unprecedented. Recently, $1.5 billion was invested in all our agri-environmental initiatives. I can assure the House t