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{
"time": "2026-01-28 19:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Gord Johns",
"fr": "Gord Johns"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9124359\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to reiterate that I stand alongside these incredible organizations, which I talked about earlier, representing small farmers. They are calling on the government to abandon these proposed regulatory amendments, to protect farmers and to support farmers' rights through real action and not empty words. From what I just heard, I do not feel the government is going to do that, but it needs to come clean, explain its rationale and listen to the impact this is going to have on these farmers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9124360\" data-originallang=\"en\">The ask of the stakeholders, who represent hundreds of thousands of farmers who grow our food, is simple: Will the government show, through concrete action and not empty words, that it respects a farmer's right to the age-old practice of collecting and saving their own farm seed, and abandon these harmful regulatory changes?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9124361\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are different sizes of farms. There are different farmers' needs, but these organizations represent a lot of farmers. They are being ignored, and I hope that the government will come clean on what it is proposing to do.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9124359\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je r\u00e9it\u00e8re que je suis solidaire de ces incroyables organismes, dont j'ai parl\u00e9 plus t\u00f4t et qui repr\u00e9sentent les petits agriculteurs. Ils demandent au gouvernement de laisser tomber les modifications r\u00e9glementaires propos\u00e9es, de prot\u00e9ger les agriculteurs et de soutenir leurs droits en posant des gestes concrets et non en lan\u00e7ant des paroles en l'air. D'apr\u00e8s ce que je viens d'entendre, je ne crois pas que le gouvernement le fera, mais il doit jouer franc jeu, expliquer son raisonnement et porter attention aux r\u00e9percussions que ces changements auront sur ces agriculteurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9124360\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les intervenants, qui repr\u00e9sentent des centaines de milliers d'agriculteurs, dont la production se retrouve dans nos assiettes, ont une demande tr\u00e8s simple: le gouvernement va-t-il montrer, avec des gestes concrets et non des paroles en l'air, qu'il respecte le droit des agriculteurs \u00e0 la pratique s\u00e9culaire de recueillir et de conserver leurs propres semences agricoles, et abandonner ces changements r\u00e9glementaires pr\u00e9judiciables?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9124361\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a des fermes de toutes les tailles. Les besoins des agriculteurs sont diff\u00e9rents, mais ces organismes repr\u00e9sentent beaucoup d'agriculteurs dont les voix ne semblent pas \u00eatre entendues. J'esp\u00e8re que le gouvernement dira la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 sur ce qu'il propose de faire.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/1/28/gord-johns-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13321993",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Agriculture and Agri-food",
"fr": "L'agriculture et l'agroalimentaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/1/28/",
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}
}