CGC News

The Canada Grains Council is committed to ensuring Canada’s regulatory and trade environment supports both farmers and the broader grain value chain. As part of the federal government’s 2025 Pre-Budget Consultations, we have put forward the following recommendations focused on strengthening regulatory efficiency, enhancing competitiveness, and supporting Canada’s food security:

• Recommendation 1: Amend the mandate of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to ensure they consider food security and economic impacts, including the cost of food in all their regulatory decisions without compromising on health and safety.
• Recommendation 2:Instruct the PMRA to leverage reviews and best regulatory practices from other trusted, risk-based jurisdictions to remove duplication and keep Canadian agriculture globally competitive.
• Recommendation 3: Deliver world leading regulatory performance standards by requiring the PMRA to meet 100% of its performance targets.
• Recommendation 4: Sunset the PMRA Transformation Agenda, and re-focus resources on delivering core mandate activities to ensure that Canadian farmers have timely access to innovative new products and technologies.
• Recommendation 5: Expedite the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA’s) development and full adoption of Electronic Phytosanitary Certificate (ePhyto) exchange, for both import and export of grain with all participating international trading partners.