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Lana Popham is a Canadian politician representing the riding of Saanich South in the Legislature of British Columbia.As a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), she has served in the Executive Council since 2017, currently as the Minister of Agriculture, having been reappointed to the position after having been Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport.
Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
According to its website, BC SPCA spends approximately $2.5 million per year on animal cruelty investigations, [12] an activity for which it does not receive any government funding and relies solely on public donations. Every September, the organizations conducts Paws for a Cause walks throughout British Columbia for fundraising. [13]
The term Government of British Columbia can refer to either the collective set of all three institutions, or more specifically to the executive—ministers of the Crown (the Executive Council) of the day, and the non-political staff within each provincial department or agency, i.e. the civil services, whom the ministers direct—which ...
The ALR was established by the British Columbia New Democratic Party government of Dave Barrett in 1973 to preserve the province's limited farmland from urbanization. [3]: 1–5 The ALR covers 4.6 million hectares (46 thousand square kilometers, equivalent to 18 thousand square miles), or about 4.9% of British Columbia's land base. [2]: 73 [4]
An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister for agriculture.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC; sometimes Ag-Canada; French: Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for the federal regulation of agriculture, including policies governing the production, processing, and marketing of all farm, food, and agri-based products.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (British Columbia) Ministry of Health (British Columbia) Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General (British Columbia) Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction; Ministry of Transportation and Transit