Good agricultural policy can still fail without public trust

There’s a need in this sector to improve efficiency and accelerate access to new tools, but if Canadians suspect this is being achieved by reducing oversight or weakening safeguards, trust will decline quickly. 
Advancing technology, modernizing regulation, strengthening sustainability, and building infrastructure depend on public understanding and confidence, writes Lisa Bishop-Spencer.

Federal, provincial, and territorial governments are beginning to shape the next agricultural policy framework on priorities such as competitiveness, innovation, resilience, food security, processing capacity, labour, trad...

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