What do you want to ask political leaders in Canada’s federal election?

Glacier FarmMedia is dedicated to covering the 2025 federal election with your interests as farmers as our lens. Our team of reporters will be speaking with politicians across Canada during the five-week election campaign. What do YOU want to ask them? Have your say below and we’ll update this page with your responses at bottom.

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Survey Responses

Bruce (Ontario):
What issues do you want to see federal politicians address?
Trade and tariffs; AgriStability/support for agriculture

In your opinion, what is the most-pressing issue facing Canadian farmers?
Processing capacity for all ag commodities. Here in Ontario 25-30,000 hogs a week need to leave the province for slaughter. Canadians lose out on all value added. Is the Federal gov’t anti-ag? Anti-meat?

If you could ask any of the political leaders a question, what would that question be and who would you ask?
What did you eat yesterday and why? Where did the food come from-What country? Question all leaders and MP’s.

Laurie (Ontario/Huron County):
What issues do you want to see federal politicians address?
Trade and tariffs; AgriStability/support for agriculture; Carbon tax; Supply management; Farm labour issues

In your opinion, what is the most-pressing issue facing Canadian farmers?
The taking over of vital farmland to build subdivisions, making it impossible to ever go back to workable land to grow our food. We are needing more than ever to become more self-sufficient together, as a country and to rely on locally grown and produced products and food.

The threat of tariffs from the USA will significantly damage our economy as many of our farming equipment manufacturers are states-side.

If you could ask any of the political leaders a question, what would that question be and who would you ask?
What are you planning to do to protect our farmland and farmers? The cost of living keeps rising, and taxes seem to keep growing, what is your plan to combat the rising prices in essential items, especially our food?

By raising the minimum wage for workers, what it does is drive the prices even higher because now stores will need to pay more for workers and who’s pocket does that come out of? The customer. Instead of raising minimum wage, why not cut the costs at the grocery store and gas pumps to make it more affordable for everyone?

Harry (Ontario):
What issues do you want to see federal politicians address?
Trade and tariffs; AgriStability/support for agriculture; Capital gains tax rules; Carbon tax

In your opinion, what is the most-pressing issue facing Canadian farmers?
Uncompetitiveness with the US and other counties, ie excessive taxation, poor financial support programs, very little manufacturing, processing in Canada, too much red tape .

If you could ask any of the political leaders a question, what would that question be and who would you ask?
Will you change the AgriStability program to a meaningful program, or design a new program that actual takes into account all your expenses and pays out and that takes into account unforeseen circumstances like major weather events and tariffs ? AgriStability is a very ineffective program the way it performs right now.

Hiram (Ontario):
What issues do you want to see federal politicians address?
Trade and tariffs; AgriStability/support for agriculture; Capital gains tax rules; Government spending/debt; Carbon tax

In your opinion, what is the most-pressing issue facing Canadian farmers?
Government red tape, rules regulations and restrictions. We have created a unlevel playing field to the world. Time to wake up and bring production back to Canada in all industries.

If you could ask any of the political leaders a question, what would that question be and who would you ask?
Just address my previous comment. Tear down our trade barriers and bring some common sense back.

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