Malcolm Allen is the current NDP Critic for Agriculture & Agri-Food. You are encouraged to visit this page for updates on any issues relating to Canada’s agriculture sector.
Please click HERE to find out what Malcolm is saying at the Standing Committe on Agriculture and Agri-Food.
New Democrats have put forward a plan:
Ensuring Your Family’s Food is Safe
- We want to introduce a Canadian Food Strategy that will combine health goals, environmental goals, food quality objectives, local and organic choices for consumers across the country;
- We want to increase food safety by hiring 200 new food inspectors for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
- We want to strengthen the Canada Food Inspection Agency’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to food borne illness outbreaks and ensure imported foods meet the same environmental and health standards that apply to food produced in Canada;
- We want to enact legislation to require proper labeling of food with information on its origin, its nutritional value and whether it is genetically modified or not.
Protecting the Family Farm
- We want to work with provinces to provide easily accessible business risk management programs for farmers that cost less;
- We want to review railway freight tariffs that have been gouging Canadian farmers across the country;
- We want to ensure the sustainability of Canada’s agriculture by encouraging young farmers to take up farming and by supporting current farmers with enhanced skill training, mentorship programs and ensuring that arable land is more widely available;
- We want to work with provinces to streamline and make more accessible business risk management programs by cutting accounting fees;
- We support the Canadian Wheat Board as the single desk marketer for Canadian wheat and barley.
- We support the Supply Management system in our dairy sector.
