Source: Government of Canada regional news
To support this, 28.5 per cent of regulations for agricultural marketing boards and commissions are being eliminated, including 20 redundant rules that overlap with existing requirements. This will streamline rules and provide marketing boards and commissions more time to concentrate on growing, stimulating and improving production and marketing the products their members produce.
“Alberta is the best place to do business, and we are the best province in Canada at reducing red tape to promote economic growth. We want to continue to be a leader in this space, and that’s why we’re getting out of the way of our producers so they can continue to put food on tables in Alberta and around the world.”
“Alberta’s agriculture producers deserve to focus on what they do best, feeding our province and the world. By cutting unnecessary red tape, we’re giving them more time to grow their businesses and less time buried in paperwork.”
The Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council began its red-tape reduction efforts in 2019 and continues to implement the 2020 Marketing of Agricultural Products Act amendments made by government to provide all marketing boards and commissions with bylaw-making authority.
“The Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council is thrilled to be part of modernizing the legislative framework for Alberta’s 19 agricultural marketing boards and commissions to remove unnecessary regulatory burden. Marketing boards and commissions play a vital role in growing Alberta’s agricultural industry and represent some of the world’s best farmers and ranchers.”
This change will streamline rules by eliminating unnecessary regulations and allows marketing boards and commissions to concentrate on helping producers compete, innovate and be more productive.
“The streamlining of regulatory processes allows Alberta Pulse Growers Commission to work more efficiently on behalf of Alberta farmers toward our vision of pulses on every farm, on every plate.”
Quick facts
- Marketing boards and commissions work to grow, stimulate and improve production and market regulated products to serve the producers they represent.
- The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act has existed since 1965 and establishes the Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council as the supervisory public agency for 19 marketing boards and commissions in Alberta.
- The act allows agricultural marketing boards and commissions, with oversight of the Alberta Agricultural Products Marketing Council, to establish and regulate their respective industries to produce and market their products.
- In 2023, the government made changes to the act, giving marketing boards and commissions the authority to make rules in their plan regulations.
- This change rendered another set of rules, known as the ‘authorization regulations,’ unnecessary, so government is repealing the 20 authorization regulations.