Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says farmers and producers aren't making enough use of long-standing agricultural aid programs.
OTTAWA -- Farmers, growers and producers need to tap into current agricultural support programs to help with the fallout from COVID-19 before any more money can flow from the Liberal government, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says.
That's on top of the funds inside the $252-million aid package announced earlier this month, a mix of old and new money."Please go and get this money and then it will be much easier for me to identify the gaps and to get the money where it should be going." "Minister Bibeau has always been very generous with her time, and has never shied away from talking with us," said Keith Currie, the vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which had asked the Liberals for a $2.6-billion aid program.Bibeau was first elected as an MP in 2015, taking over her partially rural Quebec riding of Compton-Stanstead from the NDP, though it had been a Bloc Quebecois stronghold for many years prior.
"I don't want to lose family farms. I care for our farmers. I care for our rural vitality," Bibeau said.In the 2019 election, the Liberals were shut out of many rural areas home to the largest parts of Canada's agriculture industry.
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