agriculture Flashcards
What is the NDP plan to protect farmer income?
Increasing support for the agricultural sector to
produce quality products, ensuring long-term
income for farmers, protecting small producers,
promoting diversification, and ensuring fair
prices for Canadian products internationally.
What is the NDP plan to mitigate the risks of farming?
Working with the provinces to provide easily
accessible and cost-efficient business risk
management programs for Canadian farmers.
What is the NDP plan to encourage young people to start farming?
Encouraging young people to take up farming
by providing enhanced skills training and
mentorship programs, and ensuring that arable
land is more widely available.
What is the NDP plan to protect the environment in agriculture?
Encouraging ecologically-sustainable practices
by supporting organic practices and crop
diversity, reducing the use of pesticides and
herbicides, banning terminator seeds, improving
the collection and disposal of waste materials,
and conserving wooded buffer zones
What is the NDP plan with regards to the wheat board?
Restoring the Canadian Wheat Board as the
single desk marketer for wheat and barley.
Improving grain transportation through the
Canadian Wheat Board with the involvement
of prairie farmers.
What is the NDP policy with relation to supply management?
Maintaining supply managed dairy, eggs,
and poultry, and the farm incomes they
support, ending the work-arounds to supply
management by sub-products (diafilted milk)
and ensuring that any new trade agreement
upholds our successful system of supply
management.
h Working to ensure that in any new trade
agreement, our successful system of supply
management is upheld.
What is the NDP plan to ensure fairness in fishing licensing?
Reforming fishery regulation to protect small
fish harvesters through co-management
and community consultation to preserve
stocks and ensure fairness in the allocation of
licenses.
What is the NDP solution to foreign over fishing?
Tough laws against foreign over-fishing and
the strengthening of the Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries Organization.
what is the NDP plan to make aquaculture more sustainable?
Increasing research and development in
aquaculture and fish farming to develop more
sustainable practices.
What is the NDP plan to protect Wild Salmon on the west coast?
Developing a West Coast Wild Salmon
renewal program.
What is the NDP plan with regards to cooperatives in agriculture and fishing?
Supporting cooperatives as a model for
producing, processing and marketing of
agricultural and fishery products.
