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market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue surfaced during a recent meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, where witnesses warned MPs that Canada lacks even the most basic national visibility into its certified organic sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois MP S\u00e9bastien Lemire contrasted Canada\u2019s fragmented approach with the United States Department of Agriculture\u2019s Organic Integrity Database, which publicly tracks certified operators across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor organic farming, the United States has a database: the Organic Integrity Database,\u201d Lemire told witnesses, noting that while some provinces maintain localized systems, Canada still lacks a unified national registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tia Loftsgard, executive director of the Canada Organic Trade Association, told the committee the absence of centralized data is now limiting the industry\u2019s ability to measure growth, identify supply gaps and coordinate domestic markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of the problem is that we don\u2019t have the data,\u201d Loftsgard testified. \u201cWe don\u2019t have one list of who is certified in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loftsgard said industry organizations are now attempting to manually assemble national operator lists themselves while lobbying Statistics Canada to assume responsibility for maintaining a comprehensive registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get Statistics Canada to take over the list of operators that we\u2019re pulling together so that we can have full information available in regard to what the opportunity is and have benchmarking to look at why there is a decline when the market is growing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The testimony exposed what several witnesses described as a widening disconnect between growing consumer demand for Canadian organic products and the country\u2019s ability to coordinate domestic supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a demand in Canada,\u201d Loftsgard said. \u201cI have many members who say that they would like to buy Canadian, but they can\u2019t find it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments suggest the lack of a centralized public database has evolved beyond an administrative issue into a broader market coordination problem affecting food sovereignty, regional processing networks and domestic procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses repeatedly described Canada\u2019s agricultural support systems as fragmented and increasingly unable to keep pace with evolving production realities, climate pressures and emerging markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur agricultural sector needs to be viewed as a living system,\u201d said Guillaume Camirand of Coop Agrobio du Qu\u00e9bec, which represents more than 150 organic grain producers in Quebec and eastern Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camirand said one of the sector\u2019s long-term priorities should be expanding domestic institutional procurement of Canadian food products, including supplying schools, hospitals and public institutions with locally produced food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAiming to supply the entire institutional market with Canadian products by 2030 is an ambitious plan,\u201d he told MPs. \u201cI\u2019d say that a target of 50 per cent could be set for 2030, and 100 per cent for 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His colleague, Marianne Bergeron, warned that government programs and support systems continue to lag behind innovation occurring within the organic sector itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPrograms therefore need to keep up with crop diversification and new practices in real time,\u201d Bergeron testified. \u201cWhen a new crop emerges, it shouldn\u2019t take the government 10 years to offer a program that supports the crop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bergeron also described major insurance and infrastructure gaps affecting organic producers, particularly in emerging regional markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, a producer can sign a $3,000 contract for hemp production, but it\u2019s only insured for $1,000,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to see that there\u2019s a significant gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses argued that the absence of federal coordination is increasingly forcing private companies to absorb responsibilities traditionally associated with public agricultural infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Shiels, grain procurement manager at Grain Millers Canada, testified that his company had established internal agronomic and crop sciences support systems to help organic growers navigate production and market challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has been some initiative taken by private companies and private industry like us,\u201d Shiels said. \u201cWe wanted to provide support, especially to organic growers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he warned that relying on private firms to independently finance those systems is unsustainable over the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking for support for that, because that\u2019s coming out of our pocket,\u201d Shiels testified. \u201cYou can\u2019t look to industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing also highlighted broader concerns about the modernization of Canada\u2019s agricultural risk-management systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Sullivan of Global Ag Risk Solutions told MPs that existing public support systems are increasingly failing to cover modern agricultural risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe risks that the public programs do not cover are widening,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses pointed to climate volatility, trade disruptions, regional infrastructure shortages and delayed government response times as growing pressures on producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several also argued that support programs frequently fail to reflect the realities of smaller regional operations, emerging crops and organic transition periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bergeron said producers transitioning to organic agriculture face a particularly difficult three-year certification process during which they absorb higher production risks without receiving organic-market pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey face the risks, but they don\u2019t get the price for an organic crop,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like flipping a switch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lemire argued that risk-management programs must evolve to better support localized food systems, regional processing infrastructure and value-added production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the overlooked aspects in risk management is precisely what you\u2019re doing \u2014 processing the resource locally and creating regional systems that enable production for local people,\u201d he told witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee hearing painted a picture of a rapidly growing sector operating without the centralized market intelligence infrastructure routinely available in competing jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As domestic 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