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CFA 2024 Annual General Meeting Recap

OTTAWA, Feb 29th, 2024 — This week’s annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) brought together farm and food leaders from across Canada under the theme Seizing Opportunities: Canada Growing Role on the World Stage. “Canadian agriculture is consistently being impacted by events that are outside of our borders and global in ...

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Food Freedom Day is February 9, 2024

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) has calculated that by Friday, February 9th, 2024, a Canadian household of average income will have earned enough to pay for their entire year’s grocery bill. Each year, CFA examines the proportion of income that Canadians spend on food to explore year-over-year expenditure changes and raise ...

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Distinguished CFA Past-President Mary Robinson Appointed to the Senate of Canada

OTTAWA, January 22, 2024 – The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) proudly congratulates Past-President Mary Robinson on her esteemed appointment to the Senate of Canada. Mary Robinson made history as the first female President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, steering the organization from 2019 to 2023. Her tenure witnessed ...

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The Canadian Federation of Agriculture Calls on Senators to Vote Against Amendments to Bill C-234

October 26, 2023 (Ottawa, ON) – The Canadian Federation of Agriculture, who represent 190,000 farm families across Canada, is urging Senators to vote against amendments to Bill C-234, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, proposed by the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. This amendment removes “heating ...

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Bill C-359 Will Improve Farmers’ Competitiveness While Enhancing Food Security

October 20, Ottawa – CFA supports Bill C-359 proposed by MP Kody Blois, An Act to amend the Feeds Act, the Seeds Act and the Pest Control Products Act (provisional registration and approval) and calls for the urgent implementation of the measures contained within this Bill to support Canadian agriculture’s competitiveness. The ability of ...

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North American European Union Agriculture Conference Brings International Farm Leaders Together to Tackle Global Issues in Agriculture

September 19, 2023, OTTAWA – The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), in partnership with COPA-COGECA, the American Farm Bureau and the Consejo Nacional Agropecuario, hosted the North American/European Union Agriculture Conference (NA/EU) in Charlottetown, PEI from September 12-14. The NA/EU is a bi-annual event that brings together farm ...

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CFA Pleased at Launch of the Temporary Foreign Worker Recognized Employer Program, Reducing Administrative Burden for Trusted Employers in Agriculture

OTTAWA, ON – August 10th, 2023 – CFA welcomes today’s announcement of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Recognized Employer Program, a three-year pilot that will first be made available to agricultural workers this September before its wider rollout in January 2024. This program, which CFA has advocated for over many ...

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The Canadian Agri-food Sustainability Initiative Celebrates the Progress Achieved through its First Iteration

June 8th, 2023, Ottawa – The Canadian Agri-Food Sustainability Initiative (CASI) is celebrating the achievement of an important milestone in its work: the release of the final report for the first iteration of the project. The report highlights the key findings to date, as well as next steps to move the initiative from the testing […]

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What we Heard Report – Agricultural Labour Strategy

May 19th, Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Federation of Agriculture and its partners The Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council (CAHRC) and Food and Beverage Canada (FBC) are pleased to see Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) What We Heard Report, which details feedback received by the Department during consultations on the ...

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Canadian Federation of Agriculture Reaction to 2023 Federal Budget

March 29th, Ottawa, ON – The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) welcomes a number of announcements in the 2023 Federal Budget, with investments made in transportation logistics, animal health emergency preparedness, and an increase in interest-free limit under the Advance Payments Program to help producers’ rising costs. “The ...

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