 | Establishing stable safety net programs
to protect family farms from unexpected drops in income caused by natural
disasters and adverse trade rules. |
| Recognizing the devastating impact of
American domestic support and European subsidies and increasing
funding for Canadian farm families until a level playing field can be
re-established internationally. |
| Ensuring that federal help to farmers as a
result of trade decisions does not depend on relief from
cash-strapped provincial governments. |
| Promoting an agriculture policy that
preserves what Canadian farmers have created to protect themselves,
including the Canadian Wheat Board and supply management in dairy and
poultry. |
| Working toward sustainable agriculture
outcomes that will help reduce input costs for pesticides, herbicides
and fuel, which are largely paid by Canadian farmers to multinational
corporations. |
| Improving food safety through better
identification, increased testing and more public inspection to make
Canadian-produced food the most trusted in the world. |
| Immediately banning all animal-to-animal
feed. |
| Enacting a moratorium on genetically modified
wheat to protect Canadian export markets and supporting mandatory
labeling of GM food at home. |
| Recognizing the danger that climate change
presents to farm families income and aggressively reducing Canadas
greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Providing incentives to increase value-added
processing and packing plants to create jobs for people living in
rural Canada. |
| A BPoC Government will encourage
self-sufficiency in national food production, including increased
diversification in the types of foods and agricultural products produced. We
will seek to enhance export opportunities for all agricultural products with
special emphasis on markets for processed and finished commodities. Through
diversifying, the value added process and
manufacturing will create new jobs within the respective communities and
Canada Sustainability. |
| A BPoC Government will give farmers the
freedom to make their own marketing and transportation decisions and
to direct, structure, and to voluntarily participate in produce
organizations. |
| The BPoC will work with Agriculture Co-ops
and initiate a fuel rebate or tax exemption for fuel used to farm land. We
feel that the fuel used in the equipment is more than a necessary item for
farmers, and should be relatively tax free. Through the use of Co-Ops and
aggressive tax reduction, we believe farmers would be better established,
and this would aid smaller farmers in repayments to Farm Credit Canada and
any other outstanding loans needed to obtain land and/or equipment. |
| Vigorously pursue the speedy and full
restoration of North American and global trade in Canadian cattle and beef
products. Looking forward, we will propose enforceable means by which
borders, initially closed for emergency reasons, can be re-opened in timely
manner on the basis of sound science |
| The BPoC will examine a tax relief system on
agricultural products used in the manufacture of other Canadian goods, such
as using Canadian Milk in Canadian Yogurt. This would help promote the use
of Canadian supply in Canadian products. When something says it is Canadian,
it should be truly Canadian. |
| Steps taken to promote healthy land will be
taken into consideration come tax time. The BPoC realizeses land must be
left to replenish itself on a regular basis, causing profit loss for
farmers, they should not be forced to pay extra for non yielding land. |
