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• TRANSPORT CANADA and CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION AGENCY - - In respect to review of Canada Transportation Act, to ensure that crop farmer and shipper needs are addressed in light of chronic grain rail transportation problems in Western Canada • STATISTICS CANADA – Information Dissemination, ensuring the Statistics Canada website facilitates access to agricultural information in a user-friendly fashion. • STATISTICS CANADA – Crop Production Surveys, ensuring accurate production estimates for the Canadian agriculture industry. • STATISTICS CANADA – Census on Agriculture, ensuring accurate data for the Canadian agriculture industry. • Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada – Express entry programs, encouraging sufficient avenues to permanent residency for experienced, temporary Canadian farm workers. • HEALTH CANADA – Pest Control Products Regulations, in respect of ensuring the science-based assessment and registration of pest control products is carried out in a competitive, healthy and environmentally safe manner that offers agricultural producers with economical input choices. • HEALTH CANADA – Pest Control Products Act, in respect to reducing environmental and health risks of pest control products while improving the opportunities and environmental and economic sustainability for agricultural producers. • HEALTH CANADA - Grower Request Own Use Program, in respect of improving the competitiveness of Canadian agriculture by working to reduce the high cost of some crop protection products in Canada vis a vis other countries. • FINANCE CANADA – Income Tax Act, in respect to income, business, and Goods and Services taxation to ensure that the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors. • FINANCE CANADA – Income Tax Act, in respect to facilitating intergenerational farm transfers through holding companies, greater flexibility around sibling ownership, and the interpretation of restricted farm losses. • FINANCE CANADA - Income, business, and Goods and Services taxation regulations, in respect to ensuring the Canadian agricultural industry and Canadian farmers exist in a competitive market and can remain competitive relative to their international competitors. • FINANCE CANADA – Federal Budget, in respect to increased public research funding for climate change adaptation & crop varietal development, promoting investment into future risk mitigation, and facilitating intergenerational farm transfers. • Environment and Climate Change Canada – Species at Risk Act or habitat conservation bill or resolution that affects the management of farms, farm revenues or change costs to Canadian farmers. • Environment and Climate Change Canada – Invasive species programs and policies that aim to mitigate and reverse the threat posed to working landscapes from invasive species. • Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service, in respect to allowing controlled hunts of animal and bird pests which impact agricultural operations. • EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Temporary Foreign Worker Program, in respect to ensuring adequate access to labour for Canadian farms, encouraging avenues to permanent residency, and better integration of under-represented groups. • EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Labour Market Agreements and Labour Market Development Agreements, in respect to improving the ability of the Canadian agricultural industry to continually improve the skills of farmers, and have access to skilled, competitive labour. • EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, in respect to ensuring the Canadian agricultural industry has access to skilled, competitive labour. • EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CANADA – Employment Insurance Act, in respect to employment insurance for seasonal farm workers. • CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION – Canada Grains Act regulatio