Four from Ontario have been chosen from more than 800 applicants
to join the 25-member Agriculture Youth Council established this year by federal
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau.
They are:
Gordon Bell, a soil and environmental science graduate from
the University of Guelph where he now works on the Climate Smart Soil project.
Vicki Brisson is a francophone scientist.
Paul Hrycyk worked on an organic farm in Ontario and a
wheat, pea and canola farm in Saskatchewan while studying for his MSc degree.
For the last two years he has worked for the PUR Project.
Guillaume Pasquier has worked and studied in Ontario, Quebec
and France.
They will be challenged to recommend priorities for Canadian
agriculture, to identify problems and to propose solutions, said Bibeau.
