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Before 1973, an estimated 4000 to 6000 hectares of prime agricultural land was lost each year to urbanization in British Columbia. [3]: 3 Recognition that the province had limited arable farmland, and a concern for food security, led the provincial government to introduce the Land Commission Act on 18 April 1973 which created the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) and established the ...
Individually, every public sector organization in BC is assigned a ministry that is responsible for the organization. That minister is the primary link between the B.C. government and the organization and is held accountable to the government for the performance of the organization. [ 3 ]
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.
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.
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]
Pages in category "Agriculture in British Columbia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Ministry of Attorney General of British Columbia; Ministry of Children and Family Development (British Columbia) Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness; Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (British Columbia) Ministry of Health (British Columbia) Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General (British Columbia)
The successor to this ministry was the "Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection", existing from 2001 to 2005. The successor to this was the "Ministry of Environment", existing from 2005 to 2016. Throughout all of these successive name changes and restructurings, the ministry had retained the same functional responsibilities since 1991. [8]