The pieces will include comments from Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald, Conservative Ag Critic John Barlow and other MPs.
And since producers may be too busy to watch question period each day or consult the hansard (record of debates), Farms.com will happily take on that responsibility.
Farms.com hopes this useful information will help keep Canadian producers informed about what Prime Minister Carney’s government is doing to support the industry and how opposition parties are keeping the federal government accountable for their actions.
Here are some exchanges that took place during the previous session of Parliament.
On April 15, 2024, Conservative MP Philip Lawrence asked then minister of agriculture Lawrence MacAulay if the government would pass Bill C-234 in its original form to lower the price of food.
The minister’s response touched on his experiences as a farmer.
“Being a farmer, I am fully aware that farmers are on the front line of climate change,” MacAulay said. “They see the devastating impacts of climate change in this country and the destruction of barns, killing cattle.”
On September 17, Conservative Ag Critic John Barlow said the carbon tax increases costs for truckers and food, and challenged the government to a carbon tax election.
Jenna Sudds, the minister of families, children and social development, accused the Conservatives of wanting to cut programs that Canadian families rely on.
And for the week of Nov. 25 to 29, ag only came up once.
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay, the Bloc MP for Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, used President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian products to continue pushing the federal government to pass C-282.
Prime Minister Trudeau “needs to take immediate action to protect supply management with Bill C-282,” Savard-Tremblay said.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne replied, telling MPs now is not the time for panic, and a team Canada approach is required to defend Canadian industries.