Canadian Federation of Agriculture

What they're asking for

In the registry's own words. Descriptions are only filed for meetings since mid-2024.

1. Advanced Payments Program: Permanently increase the interest-free portion of the Advanced Payments Program to $350,000, streamline administration requirements, and reverse AAFC's recent changes to lending policy requiring administrators to classify all clients as "high risk" for four years regardless of their credit standing.

   April 22, 2026 · Brendan Hanley · Liberal · Agriculture; Taxation and Finance

2. National Food Security Strategy - Agriculture should be treated as a national priority, given its central role in food security, economic growth, and global stability. A national food security strategy should put farmers and food production at its core by improving access to capital, protecting farmland, stabilizing input supplies, accelerating innovation through more efficient regulation, expanding value-added processing, addressing labour shortages, and modernizing transportation and supply chain infrastructure through a whole-of-government approach.

   April 21, 2026 · Kody Blois · Liberal · Health; International Trade; Agriculture

3. Temporary Foreign Worker Program - to seek support in addressing the chronic labour shortages in the agriculture sector by ensuring the agriculture streams are maintained to support farmers' seasonal and temporary needs, while at the same time supporting pathways to permanent residency for experienced temporary foreign workers.

   April 21, 2026 · Scot Davidson · Conservative · Labour; Agriculture; Taxation and Finance; Budget

4. Critical Farm Input Strategy - to establish a coordinated approach to ensuring Canadian farmers have reliable and timely access to essential inputs such as fertilizer, crop protection products, energy, and veterinary tools that are fundamental to food production, yet availability is increasingly vulnerable to supply chain volatility, geopolitical instability, and regulatory barriers.

   April 21, 2026 · Terry Dowdall · Conservative · Health; International Trade; Agriculture; Taxation and Finance

5. Dedicated Agriculture and Agri-Food Infrastructure Funding Stream - to establish a dedicated agriculture and agri-food infrastructure stream within federal programming to improve access, coordination, and impact of national infrastructure projects for the agricultural sector. A persistent gap exists for mid-scale, regionally specific projects that fall between innovation programming and large-scale infrastructure programming. Key needs for agriculture include logistics corridors, processing and storage capacity, water and irrigation systems, energy infrastructure, and digital connectivity.

   April 21, 2026 · Ted Falk · Conservative · Health; Infrastructure; International Trade; Agriculture

6. climate change and midigation of Green house gass on dairy farms and the role of federal progams in promoting the use of best management programs that are in existance.

   April 21, 2026 · Brendan Hanley · Liberal · Environment; Agriculture; Animal Welfare

7. Expanded Eligibility for Farm Rollover Provisions - expanding farm rollover provisions to a broader range of family members, including nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and stepchildren, to reduce tax barriers to intergenerational farm transfers and sustain investment in the sector as Canada's farm population continues to age, while recognizing the multi-family nature of many farming operations in Canada

   April 21, 2026 · Kent MacDonald · Liberal · Agriculture; Taxation and Finance

8. Bill C-273, An Act to amend the Feeds Act, the Fertilizers Act, the Seeds Act, the Pest Control Products Act and the Food and Drugs Act - with respect to the need to accelerate access to new tools and technologies by leveraging trusted jurisdictions' risk and science-based decisions to streamline approval timelines and use use mechanisms such as conditional approvals to bring safe, innovative products to market faster for the agricultural sector.

   April 20, 2026 · John Barlow · Conservative · Health; International Trade; Agriculture

9. Labour Disruptions: Launch consultations with industry representatives and implicated stakeholders to explore options to address the root causes of labour disruptions. Modernize labour laws to establish a clear, transparent, and expedited process for resolving labour disputes and prevent the increasing frequency and severity of labour disruptions that are destabilizing to the Canadian economy.

   October 28, 2025 · John Barlow · Conservative · Labour; Agriculture

10. Canada Grain Act (CGC) - to seek the modernization of the Canada Grain Act to better represent the interests of producers, be more predictable, cost effective and transparent, and increased funding to the CGC to support the public good function of the CGC such as grain quality assurance, while reaffirming the Canadian Grain Commission's mandate to maintain standards and regulate grain handling in the interests of grain producers.

    October 28, 2025 · Steven Bonk · Conservative · Infrastructure; International Trade; Agriculture

Full meeting log

54 MP-directed communications since January 2024, from the Registry of Lobbyists.