Now is Canada’s chance to become the world’s agri-food powerhouse

The perfect food security storm is upon us: low supplies, trade disruptions, scarce and expensive inputs, and rising prices everywhere.

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured in June 2019, two months after she took on the agriculture portfolio. Although the current tragedy unfolding in the Ukraine threatens global food security, there is an opportunity for Canada to show leadership and become the world’s chief agri-food powerhouse, write Evan Fraser and Lenore Newman. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EVAN FRASER AND LENORE NEWMAN

April 7, 2022

When Russia's army invaded Ukraine, it not only caused massive humanitarian and political tragedies, but also destabilized world food systems. Ukraine and Russia are usually in the world’s top five wheat exporters, accounting for about 25 per cent of global wheat trade. Additionally, Russia and Uk...

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