Submissions

CFA comments on the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) Legislative Review. CFA noted that Canadian agriculture and rural Canada should be priority areas for investment for the CIB, considering the bank’s key goals of funding green infrastructure and broadband for underserved communities.

CFA supports the Government of Canada pursuing a bilateral trade agreement with Ecuador, provided it results in outcomes that benefit all Canadian agriculture by maximizing profitable export opportunities such as, for example, refined beet sugar that is wholly obtained here in Canada, while ensuring trade rules that allow for the maintenance of an effective supply management system.

CFA is fully supportive of the use of incorporation by reference, which introduces the content of a document into a regulation without having to include the document’s full text in the regulation. By making it easier to update information, for example when a list of pests or requirements changes, industry is better positioned to provide timely support to producers across Canada.

To maintain critical supply chain functions during stoppages caused by strikes or collective bargaining processes, CFA recommends that the employer’s ability to re-assign existing non-unionized workers within a company, including management staff be maintained.