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Agriculture & Food

Locally-grown food platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Locally-grown food.
We don't have any Conservative policies on Locally-grown food.

NDP

Work with producers along the supply chain to increase the amount of Canadian food that is sold, processed, and consumed in local and regional markets.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Locally-grown food.

Green

  • Invest $2.5m/year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture.
  • Set targets for domestic production.
  • Rooftop gardens.
  • Re-establish infrastructure for local food production.
  • Preserve and record existing farmland.

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Invest $2.5 million per year into a land and quota trust program and farming apprenticeship programs to expand local small-scale agriculture and help new farmers get started.

Set a target to replace a third of Canada’s food imports with domestic production, increasing regional food self-reliance and returning 15 billion food dollars back into our economy.

Support rooftop and community gardens and urban food production systems to increase access to local food.

Assist in re-establishing the infrastructure for local food production in canneries, slaughterhouses and other value-added food processing.

Protect supply management systems while allowing production for local markets outside this system.

Reinstate the Canada Land Inventory program to provide a comprehensive record of existing and potential agricultural land.

Provide effective fiscal incentives to other levels of government to preserve farmlands under their jurisdictions.

From Election Plan 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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We don't have any PPC policies on Locally-grown food.

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