Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay speaks with reporters following the Annual Conference of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Agriculture. He is joined at the news conference in Whitehorse by John Streicker (Yukon energy, mines, and resources minister) and André Lamontagne (Quebec agriculture minister).
The ministers discuss the approval of a grocery sector code of conduct and their endorsement of a request to the federal government for $1.2 million in short-term funding to implement this new code of conduct that aims to improve fairness and predictability in the agricultural sector.
(Note: Portions of this event are not available due to technical problems at the source)