New Zealand Prime Minister John Key’s visit to Ottawa serves to contrast Canada’s agricultural policy with the policy of free trade.
Agriculture
Is Our Food Safety System Broken?: It is more accurate to say that it has not yet been built.
Slyvain Charlebois argues the debate on food safety should not about the number of inspectors hired but how to build food safety systems that serve the health requirements of Canadian consumers.
The Shape of Tomorrow’s Farming
Farming intensity must triple on the best land, in order to protect the poorer land which houses three-fourths of the wild species. Good farmland will become even more important, as one of the scarcest resources.
Canada’s Cropland: Becoming Better Protected From Erosion: Canada’s soil is far healthier today than it was 20 years ago
Over the past 30 years, the percentage of Canada’s agricultural soil that is well-protected from soil erosion has steadily increased. FC056
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
Mosquito Control With Malathion: Are There Public Health Consequences?
The spraying of malathion to control mosquitoes is a safe, effective means of preventing the spread of disease.
Jurassic Twilight – Farm Monopolists
DINOSAURS live. Two have been roaming the Canadian prairies and parts of Australia, respectively, for decades, and are still at it: the two countries' legally enforced wheat-export monopolies. But till when? American farmers think it is time they were extinct. They...
Canadian Farmers’ British Friend
The Canadian farm belt owes more to Britain's Prime Minister than our own. Indeed, Tony Blair may become the best friend that farmers on this side of the Atlantic have had in generations. As President of the European Union for the next six months, Blair is pushing...
Conservative Ag Critic on Ag Free Trade
Dear Mr. Penner: In the interest of clarity I thought I would address your June 16, 2005 "Who Speaks For Free Trade?" commentary, as posted on the The Frontier Centre for Public Policy website. It is absolutely not the position of the Conservative Party that the...
Farmers aren’t Killing the Environment
The daily press hammers out doom and gloom headlines about high-production agriculture and the use of pesticides to produce food
Lost PMU Farms – Victims of Junk Science
Based on a dishonest use of numbers, a lot of women who could be helped by estrogen therapy are refusing it, and the industry is contracting.
Farmers’ New Trials Contain a Silver Lining
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal tossed cases out on Monday for the six grain farmers who tried to haul wheat across the border into the United States, to protest the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on Western-based grain exports
Farmer Abuse
The Wheat Board has a lot of nerve when it takes European trips at farmers’ expense in order to harm their interests.
Wheat board at WTO to Protect Farmer Interests – Our view …
The Canadian Wheat Board responds to a Frontier column on the agency’s participation in WTO talks in Europe.