A day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed the first woman Minister of Agriculture, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture elected its first woman president.
Trudeau appointed Marie-Claude Bibeau of Southern Quebec and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture delegates elected Mary Robinson.
She is past president of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture, is a member of Eric C. Robinson Inc. farm businesses, is a crop advisor and manages Island Lime which markets lime, gypsum and has a custom lime and fertilizer application business.
She replaces Ron Bonnett, the organization’s president since 2010.
Keith Currie, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, was elected as first vice-president; Chris van den Heuvel, former president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture, was elected second vice-president.
