Posts Tagged ‘food security’

Budget Fails to Address Priorities of Farmers

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Ottawa, ON – Alex Atamanenko, MP (BC Southern Interior) NDP Agriculture Critic, says it’s time for the government to get their priorities right. “Instead of substantially addressing the farm income crisis affecting so many other sectors the government has chosen to undermine the grain industry, one of the few sectors that is doing just fine,” [...]

Speech to Biofuels Bill C-33: Food Sovereignty

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The following in an excerpt from a speech Alex made in the House of Commons on April 17, 2008.
39th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION
EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 081
…a number of issues have to be addressed in the area of food sovereignty. Next week, for example, I will be in the small community in my riding of Princeton [...]