A temporary foreign worker from Mexico plants strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020.Sylvain Charlebois is a professor of food distribution and policy, and director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, at Dalhousie University.
The $125-million program to support livestock raises a variety of questions. Executing the program will take time, something producers do not have. Few details were given about the role of provinces or how much farmers will receive. The measures presented will likely not prevent more animals from being euthanized in the days to come. Along with milk dumping, COVID-19 is serving up case studies on a silver platter for animal-rights activists.
There were interesting elements to the plan, and Ottawa should be credited for these. The recognition that the Canadian Dairy Commission is the ideal agent for dealing with surplus production was accurate. The $100-million credit given to the Crown corporation responsible for making sure that milk surpluses are managed properly was a very good decision.
GlobeDebate Votes not worth buying. Soft handed university superior elites in government cabinet take you for redneck idiots. $9billion for drunk student fund. Let them starve. Plant zero. No warning no negotiations. Who holds the stick? Who's hands are ruined from work?
GlobeDebate Liberals are opening the bank to buy votes. Yet the average Canadian taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. When the economy shrinks, they will bow down and invite the Chinese CCP back
GlobeDebate 9 billion for students to sit on their duff all summer and a mere pittance for our food growers. Vote liberal next time folks. Brilliant decisions. 👏👏👏👏👏👏🤢🤢🤢🤢
GlobeDebate Food security aside, with the number of farms that will close and the inevitable rise in food costs that consumers will see as a result, on top of the job loses, spending now to save us down the road seemed like an issue most Canadians would support. We moving to CN imports now?
GlobeDebate I’d love to support farmers; what I don’t understand is what they want the support to do. Produce more? Hire more help? Store stuff instead of dumping? I think the food processing & dairy $ were great. I know locally all CSA are sold out. So how is the $ aid supposed to help?
GlobeDebate Well the WHO was happy they got 850 million
GlobeDebate $9B for students. $850MM recently for WHO. $500MM for arts and culture. $9MM for seniors (through United Way). $252MM for Agriculture. Got it.
GlobeDebate No miracles. Just an acknowledgement from the government and public that our internal food supply is just as important as the servers who use to serve it. $5b vs next to nothing. Don’t complain when your US important produce doesn’t arrive.
GlobeDebate 9 billion for students, many foreign, 250 million for the farmers who feed us. Wow.
GlobeDebate Sorry, miracles are in short supply these days...for everybody.
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