With the weather taking its toll on farmers across the province during harvest, Battle River-Crowfoot MP Damien Kurek came together with some other Conservative MPs to see what could be done to help.
Kurek met with fellow Alberta Conservative MPs Gerald Soroka (Yellowhead), Martin Shields (Bow River), John Barlow (Foothils) and Chris Warkentin (Grande Prairie-Mackenzie), who committed to working with the various provincial agriculture ministers to get producers through this rough time period.
“This is a growing crisis that puts the stability and future of our agriculture in east central Alberta and all across western Canada at risk,” Kurek stated.
“The financial strain of this developing crisis could jeopardize the financial stability for many farm families. The federal government must act quickly to respond to the real struggles of impact farm families.”
Among the ideas expressed during the meeting were: meeting with provincial counterparts to collaborate and assist with solutions; demand the federal government immediately complete the business risk management review, that was requested by stakeholders, promised back in 2017; ask government for relief programs and the removal of boundaries on tax relief and benefits; work to get canola back into the Chinese market; and, continue to fight the plan to impose a federal carbon tax on Albertans.