2025 Federal Election

**This page will be regularly updated. Last update – April 23, 2025.

The 2025 election has re-drawn ridings and new boundaries that may have changed which riding you will vote in. Find your new riding and polling station here: Voter Information Service – Find your electoral district 

Key Voting Dates

  • Advanced Polls: April 18-21 from 9:00am-9:00pm
  • Election Day: April 28 from 8:30am-8:30pm

Canadian Federation of Agriculture Resources

Platform Commitment Tracker

Liberal Party of Canada
  • Strengthen Canada’s food security by investing in greenhouses, hydroponics, and other controlled environment agriculture that allow us to grow more types of food.  
  • Work to increase the resilience of food supply chains and support innovation.  
  • Amend the mandates of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency to ensure they consider food security and the cost of food in all their regulatory decisions without compromising on health and safety. Currently, these important agencies only look at their respective mandates through a health and safety lens. 
  • Direct the Canada Infrastructure Bank to prioritize investments in agriculture, fisheries, agri-food, and the food supply chain.  
  • Support modern water management practices and safeguard local water resources as part of the freshwater action plan 
  • Keep Canada’s supply management off the table in any negotiations with the U.S. and protect Canada’s commitment to supply management and supply-managed sectors, including dairy, poultry, and eggs.  
  • Make permanent the doubling of revenue protection for farmers under the AgriStability Program, from $3 million to $6 million per farm, in the case of significant revenue drops caused by tariffs, extreme weather events, and other external shocks. 
  • Build more domestic processing capacity, including food processing capacity in rural and remote areas, with a new $200 million Domestic Food Processing Fund, applicable to both agricultural and fisheries products.  
  • Increase support for farmers, ranchers, and producers, including in the fish and seafood sectors, to access new markets for their food products with an additional $30 million in the AgriMarketing Program.  
  • Increase the support for farmers and ranchers to buy more efficient farm equipment.  
  • Double the loan guarantee limit, from $500,000 to $1 million, of the Canadian Agricultural Loans Act Program and expand terms to 20 years.  
  • Work with the National School Food Program and provinces and territories to prioritize the purchasing of Canadian food products as much as possible, supporting our farmers and ensuring Canadian kids have access to local, fresh food grown and caught in Canada.  
  • Work with the Canada Food Inspection Agency to ensure mutual recognition of food safety standards with reliable trading partners.  
Conservative Party of Canada
  • Reducing taxes and red tape that will reduce costs for farmers – this includes removing the entire carbon tax on everything  
  • The Conservatives will launch a Tax Reform Task Force made up of farmers, builders, entrepreneurs, economists and workers focused on to create a simpler tax code.  
  • Reverse the capital gains tax hike and tax on reinvestment in Canada.  
  • Cancel the planned food packaging tax on fresh produce.  
  • Pass a Farmland Protection Act to stop foreign governments and corporations from buying up Canadian farmland, and report how much farmland is already owned by foreign governments and corporations.  
  • Removing interprovincial trade barriers under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement within 30 days of taking office, introduce a free trade bonus that rewards provinces that lower the trade and labour mobility barriers affecting the economy. 
  • Tearing down barriers that prevent Canadian wine, beer, and spirits being sold across provincial borders.  
New Democratic Party of Canada
  • Introduce a price cap on basic food items and enforcing it with a mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct  
  • Establish a National Food Cooperative Strategy aimed at boosting independent small and medium sized grocery stores.  
  • Maintain the capital gains tax hike introduced by the Liberal government.  
  • Introduce a Build Canada Plan that will increase the federal government’s capital investment budget by $10 billion a year and invest in productive assets including ports, rail, and highways.  
Green Party of Canada
  • National Canada’s freight rail line as public infrastructure and ensure service for Canadian farmers and passengers priority over freight  
  • Building and expand food processing, storage, and distribution infrastructure 
  • Increase Canada’s food self-sufficiency by replacing one-third of food imports with locally produced food. 
  • Strengthen supply management to protect Canadian farmers, while ensuring small-scale and cooperative food producers have fair access to markets. 
  • Create a system of regional food hubs. 
  • Reduce regulatory barriers for small-scale processors to ensure local producers have access to food processing. 
  • Invest in urban agriculture to increase food production and distribution in high density areas. 
  • Expand farmers’ markets, culinary tourism, and direct-to-consumer food sales, reducing corporate control over food distribution and supporting local food cooperatives and processing facilities.  
  • Create policies and programs that strengthen food sovereignty and incorporate this lens into political decision making to advance the public interest.  
  • Implement safeguards to prevent speculation of agricultural lands. 
  • Support a transition to agroecological systems using and respecting Traditional Ecological Knowledge. 
  • Ensure that the National School Lunch Program prioritizes purchasing local and regional food. 
  • Redirect industrial agribusiness subsidies to regenerative and organic small and mid-scale farms. 
  • Incentivize carbon sequestration in soil by expanding support for regenerative farming practices. 
  • Invest in research and direct farm support for organic and regenerative practices.  
  • Invest in climate-resilient farming, supporting drought-resistant crops, precision agriculture, water conservation systems and research. 
  • Establish sector-specific climate emission targets, including fertilizer reduction strategies, methane capture for livestock, and lower-carbon food production incentives. 
  • Re-establish Environmental Farm Plans providing direct financial support for sustainable water and soil conservation farming practices 
  • Support farmland preservation in partnership with provincial and municipal governments. 
  • Restructure Business Risk-Management Programs to provide disaster relief, climate resilience, and rapid-response aid for farmers facing extreme weather events. 
  • Revive and expand the National Pesticides Monitoring and Surveillance Network to assess the environmental impacts and public health risks of pesticides.  
  • Ban neonicotinoid pesticides and invest in direct farmer support for alternative pest management systems. 
  • Reduce the use of agricultural pesticides and non-selective herbicides by 50% by 2030.  
  • Strengthen the regulatory oversight by PMRA, CFIA, (spell out on first reference)and Health Canada to ensure the best science-based practices are used in agriculture and food production. 
  • Implement National Food Waste Strategy reducing food waste and incentivizing surplus food redistribution and composting. 
  • Comprehensively review the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to protect workers from exploitation while ensuring critical labour needs are met in agriculture. 
  • Implement comprehensive national animal welfare legislation that mandates humane treatment standards for farm animals.  
  • Invest in improving farm animal housing and welfare.  
  • Create an independent ministry responsible for animal welfare and security, separate from agriculture and agri-food.  
  • Support farmers who wish to transition from animal agriculture to sustainable, plant-based agriculture practices. 
  • Establish national minimum standards for the humane sale, transport, and processing of farm animals, reducing maximum transportation times to four hours.  
  • Introduce strict penalties and increase federal inspections to ensure compliance with animal welfare laws. 
  • Reinstate the Canada Land Inventory ensuring accurate tracking of agricultural land use, soil health, and farmland conversion to prevent loss of agricultural land.  
  • Ban the bulk acquisition of farmland by non-resident investors, ensuring Canadian farmers retain ownership and control over agricultural land. 
  • Work with provinces to strengthen farmland protection laws, ensuring land remains in agricultural use and is accessible to new farmers. 
  • Protect collective rights to seeds. Ensure that farmers can save, exchange, and use their own seeds without corporate restrictions. 
  • Support farmer-led seed banks, seed exchanges, and community land trusts to prevent corporate control over essential agricultural resources. 
  • Expand access to land and farming opportunities for rural youth interested in sustainable agriculture.  
  • Create land trusts to control farmland prices and protect arable land.

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