Canada’s agriculture ministers are meeting in Winnepeg and an overhaul of business risk management programs is on the agenda.
Other items they will ponder are international and internal trade, market access, animal disease preparedness, crop protection and pesticides, labour and the temporary foreign worker program.
On the eve of the meeting, CBC national news featured a story about inter-provincial trade in meat.
Jessica Frenette, the ownedr of Bird's Hill Farms in Woodstock, New Briunswick, said chefs around the Maritimes are looking for beef from her Wagyu cows, but packing plants need federal inspection to market across provincial borders. Her meat is processed by a company with a provincial licence.
Attending were New Brunswick agriculture minister Pat Finnigan, P.E.I. minister Bloyce Thompson, Alberta minister RJ Sigurdson, Ontario minister Trevor Jones, Manitoba minister Ron Kostyshyn, federal minister Heath MacDonald, B.C. minister Lana Popham, Sask. minister Daryl Harrison, Nova Scotia Greg Morrow and John Streicker
from Yukon.
