Fisheries committee  Yes, I think there are a number of different programs. If you look at the livestock sector, the biggest risk would be to cattle access to streams. There can be incentive programs that look at fencing back from water courses and at getting off-stream watering. There is a lot of

Fisheries committee  That's it exactly.

Fisheries committee  They were using the same types of rules on every waterway.

Fisheries committee  The challenges were mostly bureaucratic. Before the act was changed, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was involved with almost every drain maintenance operation that was going on. There was bureaucratic red tape you had to go through, not only with the Department of Fisheri

Fisheries committee  It's improved. There are still some challenges when you have multiple jurisdictions working on that. It varies very much depending on which area you are in. It has improved dramatically from what it was.

Fisheries committee  Protection can be enhanced. I think what you're referring to is related to the outcomes statement. It's taking a look at what the outcome is. That's putting a whole package of things together like incentive programs, set-asides, ecological goods and services, and those types of t

Fisheries committee  That's one thing we're asking for, especially on the environmental side. We're looking at investments there, but we're also taking a look at other departments too, where they might make investments in agriculture to meet some of the other objectives. This gets very broad, with no

Fisheries committee  There are a number of examples. There's the cows and fish program in Alberta. Prince Edward Island's doing a lot of work under the alternative land use services. Regarding your comment about regulations versus incentives, farmers have been known to be somewhat independent. If so

Fisheries committee  Of course, when you begin fencing cattle back from water, all of a sudden you see productivity and herd health improve, so you're getting a benefit on the farm side and a benefit on the environmental side. The short answer is that, if you really want to get an argument going wit

Fisheries committee  I think it's very easy sometimes to get caught up in putting regulations in place that you think may solve a problem, without actually having the hard evidence looking at what will change. Even if I take a look at the work that's been done on our own farm, such as fencing back fr

Fisheries committee  I think there are two things. The one thing I mentioned was conservation and stewardship initiatives to incent farmers to do the right thing. Sometimes this isn't necessarily on the drainage ditches; it's on water courses that are through their farms. On the drainage ditch maint

Fisheries committee  Thanks a lot, and thanks for the invitation to make a presentation. Some of you might wonder what farmers have to do with fish, but hopefully by the end of the presentation, you'll get a bit of grasp on it. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, for those of you who don't know,

Agriculture committee  One of the things that has to be recognized is that farming is a business. If we're not making a profit, no farm is going to stay in business. If it's small farms that people want to protect, they're going to have to find a niche market that gives them high enough margins that

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure if I'm specifically answering your question, but with the business risk management program—as mentioned in the presentation—I think with the changes to AgriStability farmers basically backed away. They didn't see value in the program. On AgriInsurance, where your cro

Agriculture committee  We've made some specific recommendations as to how tax policy applies to the transfer specifically to family farms that are taxing the next generation. Rather than getting into detail, there's some twist to the way the tax policy is worded that sometimes causes siblings to be tre