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Agriculture platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC
  • Invest $100M to increase the Risk Management Program

    "Investing $100 million to increase the Risk Management Program to enhance support for farmers and the province’s $51 billion agri-food sector. This increase will support farmers in responding to market challenges while boosting their long-term business confidence and competitiveness." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP
  • Remove the cap from the Risk Management Program

    "To address the threat of Trump tariffs on agricultural products like pork, beef, grain products and fresh vegetables, an Ontario NDP government would completely remove the cap from the Risk Management Program, ensuring the government has the tools it needs to protect Ontario farmers from Cochrane to Algoma, and the jobs they support." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Stop plans to convert 770 acres of farmland in the Wilmot area into an industrial area

    "We will protect prime farmland and stop the unfair and secretive Wilmot land grab, focusing development sensibly and cost-effectively within existing urban boundaries." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Create a universal school food programme, using fresh food prepared and grown in-province

    "Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Green
  • Create a programme to pay farmers for environmental goods and services

    "Introduce a provincial program to pay farmers for environmental goods and services by working with organisations such as Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Develop local, sustainable food procurement guidelines for public institutions

    "Prioritise Ontario-grown food by developing local, sustainable procurement guidelines for public institutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Invest in local food hubs

    "Invest in local food hubs to support local farmers, supply chains and businesses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide tax incentives for local food and beverage manufacturers who purchase inputs grown in Ontario
  • Support supply management

    "Support supply management and defend Ontario food and farmers in trade negotiations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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  • Create an Ontario Foodbelt to permanently protect prime farmland from being lost to non-agricultural uses

    "Create an Ontario Foodbelt to permanently protect prime farmland from being lost to non-agricultural uses, such as urban sprawl, highways, and gravel mining" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase funding, remove the cap, and expand business risk management programmes
  • Increase provincial investment in agricultural technology

    "Increase provincial investment in AgTech to support innovation in the food and farming sector including research into low-carbon grain drying and greenhouse heating solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a food processing infrastructure fund to support investments by Ontario-based companies in food processing facilities
  • Freeze urban boundaries and reverse recent boundary expansions
  • Eliminate property tax penalties for farmers with small-scale, value-added production facilities on farms
  • Ensure the grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits customers and farmers

    "Ensure the existing Federal-Provincial-Territorial grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits both customers and farmers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Promote training in specialty programmes focused on sustainable practices and soil health within agricultural schools and extension services

    "Promote training in specialty programs that focus on sustainable practices and soil-health within agricultural schools and extension services" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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