BC Fruit Growers' Association
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To develop a program under the COVID-19 Recovery Fund to compensate BC tree fruit producers for the impact of COVID-19 on labour and other costs of doing business and to match US COVID-10 programs to assist direct competitors in Washington State.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
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Agriculture, COVID-19, Economic Development and Trade, Finances and Budgets, Regional Development, Small Business, Taxation and Finance
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To establish a tax on food that will fund a BC Agriculture Trust Fund, with a purpose of funding agricutlural programs and projects.
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Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Agriculture, Consumer Issues, Economic Development and Trade, Finances and Budgets, Regional Development, Taxation and Finance
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To establish a Tree Fruit Replant Program starting in 2022.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Agriculture, Economic Development and Trade, Regional Development, Taxation and Finance
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To establish a trust fund for agriculture programs and development that is funded by general government revenues or by property tax surcharges for non-productive agricultural (rural estate / hobby farmer) uses in the ALR, as recommended by the Minister of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee (Committee) for Revitalizing the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) and the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), Final Committee Report to the Minister of Agriculture: Recommendations for Revitalization, December 4, 2018.
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Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Agriculture, Finances and Budgets, Municipal Affairs, Regional Development, Taxation and Finance
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To establish legislation and regulations that enable a Food Retailer Code of Practice that protects suppliers from predatory practices of massively considated food retailers. To establish a program to regulate massively consolidated food retailers to protect suppiers and consumers.
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Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
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Agriculture, Consumer Issues, Economic Development and Trade, Finances and Budgets, Industry, Regional Development, Small Business, Taxation and Finance
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To provide emergency, bridge funding for the tree fruit sector pending completion of the Minsiter of Agriculture's Tree Fruit Stabilization Initiative.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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Agriculture, Economic Development and Trade, Regional Development, Taxation and Finance
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To seek to fair compensation of the province of BC for storage and release of irrigation water in Canadian reservoirs during the negotiation of an updated Columbia River Treaty, and t ; huge subsidies (over 30% of grower revenue) paid to Washington State apple producers io seek compensation from these US funds for any impacts of the related expansion of irrigated production in Washington State. To seek establish a Coumbia River Treaty Agricutlural Trust Fund.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
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Agriculture, Economic Development and Trade, Finances and Budgets, Health, Industry, Non-Profit Organization, Regional Development, Small Business, Taxation and Finance
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