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The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is responsible for the Canadian Grain Commission. The Commission is governed by the Canada Grain Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. G-10), which provides for the appointment of three commissioners by the federal cabinet, one of whom is named chief commissioner. The CGC is headed by a Chief Operating Officer (COO ...
Focus on bills, review of expenditures, policies, and programs of the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food and its agencies: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Operates Alberta's electrical grid and electricity generation market (which as of November 2023, is 46% owned by TransAlta [6] [7]). Affordability and Utilities: Alberta Utilities Commission: Regulatory/Adjudicative Responsible for regulating the utilities sector, natural gas, and electricity markets. Affordability and Utilities: Balancing Pool ...
The Alberta Farmers' Co-operative Elevator Company (AFCEC) had its roots in agitation by the agrarian reformer Edward Alexander Partridge of Sintaluta. The organization meeting for the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) was held in Sintaluta, Manitoba on 27 January 1906, with Partridge as the first president. The GGGC was a cooperative ...
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.
Grain Handling, Crop Production Services, Livestock, Hail Insurance Agricore United, Inc. was a farmer-directed agribusiness in Canada . [ 1 ] It supplied crop nutrition and crop protection products, and offered grain handling and marketing services.
The wheat pools were successful grain traders and marketers from 1923 to 1929. During the Great Depression, however, huge losses forced them out of the grain marketing business. They persisted as grain elevator operators but after 1935 all grain marketing in Canada shifted to a new government agency, Canadian Wheat Board.