Rod Leggett

Legislative proposals, bills, and/or resolutions that impact dairy farmers in Manitoba. Regulations relating to compositional standards of dairy products, and those that have impacts on dairy farmers. Promote and defend Canada's supply management system as it relates to trade agreements, bilateral and multilateral negotiations, industry research, and policy changes.

Regulations under the Food and Drugs Act relating to compositional standards of dairy products. Agriculture and International Trade - Promote and defend Canada's supply management system as it relates to the World Trade Organization and Canada-European Trade Agreement negotiations as well as other bilateral and multilateral negotiations.

Legislative proposals, bills, and/or resolutions that impact dairy farmers in Manitoba. Promote and defend Canada's supply management system as it relates to trade agreements, bilateral and multilateral negotiations, industry research, and policy changes. Regulations relating to compositional standards of dairy products, and those that have impacts on dairy farmers.

Ensure retailer flyer printing and distribution in Canada remains competitive. At a time when the news publishing industry is facing soaring costs due to inflation, advertising competition from foreign Big Tech giants, and the theft of journalistic content by AI companies, ensure Canada Post offers community newspaper publishers the same rates and level of service they are offering to the dominant commercial printer in Canada. Ensure there is healthy competition in the flyer printing and distribution markets across Canada. Amend the definition of a Qualified Canadian Journalism organization (QCJO), requiring that an organization regularly employ two or more journalists to include: journalists who do not deal at arm’s length with the organization. This would generally include owners/partners who actively pursue, research, analyze, explain, edit, format, design, write or report the news, or select, plan, or assign work, in accordance with journalistic processes and principles. They would work, on average, a minimum of 26 hours per week and spend at least 75% of their time engaged in the production of original written news content, including researching, collecting information, verifying facts, photographing, writing, editing, designing and otherwise preparing content. To halt the theft of copyright protected news content, Public Services and Procurement Canada and Treasury Board should ensure those on the government’s list of interested artificial intelligence suppliers sign a "supplier commitment to support the Government of Canada’s effort in leading the way on ethical AI” that includes a commitment to the principles of transparency, consent, and attribution with respect to all copyright-protected source content. Ensure that the Online News Act continues and that funding is distributed in accordance with the Act and its Regulations. Ensure social media services covered by the Online News Act do not allow publisher content to be reproduced (screen shots, copied text, etc.) without providing compensation to news businesses. Protect intellectual property by preventing LLMs from scraping journalistic content. Ensure search engines cannot abuse their dominant position by de-indexing Canadian news sites if publishers block their AI bots from crawling our protected content without consent, credit, and compensation. Ensure any policy changes to the Aid to Publishers component of the Canadian Periodical Fund take into account the importance of the program, especially to smaller rural community newspapers. Align the Government of Canada advertising policy with the Government of Canada's "Buy Canadian Policy" by directing the Agency of Record to ensure a minimum of 25% of the Government of Canada domestic advertising budget to Canadian private sector news businesses. Ensure Canada Post continues to perform its vital role deliver community newspapers to Canadians. Have Canada Post return to the long-standing policy of exempting community newspapers with commercial inserts (e.g., flyers from local hardware and grocery franchisees) from the Consumers’ Choice program. Community newspapers with commercial inserts are not ‘junk mail’. Ensure that the Copyright Act is not modified through an exception permitting Text and Data Mining (TDM) allowing AI companies to use Canadian news publishers' protected works to train generative AI systems without consent, credit, or compensation. For transparency and to facilitate verification of eligible news publishers under the Online News Act, make the list of Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations public. Keep advertising in dollars in Canada by closing the loophole in Section 19 of the Income Tax Act that allows for the deductibility of foreign internet advertising. Maintaining the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit at 35%. Abuse of dominance and anti?competitive business practices related to online search, search advertising and display advertising services in Canada. Extending the Local Journali

Projet de loi C-13 Loi modifiant la Loi sur les langues officielles, édictant la Loi sur l’usage du français au sein des entreprises privées de compétence fédérale et apportant des modifications connexes à d’autres lois ; Sollicitations auprès des membres du Comité permanent sur les langues officielles pour prendre en considération dans le projet de loi des intérêts des PME francophones et de certaines facettes reliées à des dossiers spécifiques d'application de la loi, par exemple dans le domaine l'égalité renforcée des langues officielles, des appuis à des secteurs d'activités économiques spécifiques tel que la petite enfance, l'immigration francophone renforcée, l'usage du français dans les entreprises ou encore le développement économique communautaire auprès des communautés de langues française en situation minoritaire. Plan d'action sur les langues officielles ; Sollicitation auprès de titulaires de charge publique en ce qui concerne le renouvellement et la mise en oeuvre du plan d'action sur les langues officielles à l'horizon post 2023. Parmi les enjeux prioritaires que nous souhaitons voir refléter dans le nouveau plan d'action : une meilleure inclusion du développement économique et des enjeux liées aux entrepreneurs francophones en contexte minoritaire comme moyen d'épanouissement et de vitalité des communautés francophones et acadienne. Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés L.C. 2001, ch. 27 ; Sollicitations auprès des titulaires de charge publique et de divers intervenants pour un renforcement de la proportion du taux d'immigration francophone dans les communautés de langues officielles en situation minoritaire (contexte Hors Québec). Plus particulièrement, entammer et maintenir un dialogue constructif sur l'atteinte de la cible en immigration et partager nos impressions et priorités quant aux cibles futures. Démarches auprès de titulaires de charge publique afin de présenter notre réseau national - le RDÉE Canada -, d'expliquer nos orientations stratégique et notre présence dans 12 provinces et territoires dans les communautés francophones et acadienne en situation minoritaire. L'objectif de ces rencontres est d'informer les titulaires de charge publique et aussi de les sensibiliser aux défis et aux opportunités qui doivent être considérés lors de leur prise de décisions qui touchent de près ou de loin le développement économique et l'employabilité des communautés francophones et acadienne en situation minoritaire au Canada. Des rencontres auront lieu par exemple dans le cadre des processus budgétaires et pour les programmes en immigration. Le RDÉE Canada concentrera ses effort de représentations sur des axes stratégiques comme l'entrepreneuriat, l'employabilité et le développement économique communautaire.