Framing the Next Policy Framework

"In my mind, those frameworks are both an art and a science." That's how Dori Gingera-Beauchemin describes the work of building Canada's national agricultural frameworks. And right now, the next one is taking shape. The Next Policy Framework will run 2028 to 2033 and succeeds the Sustainable CAP. We speak with two people who have shaped these frameworks from every angle. Dori Gingera-Beauchemin spent forty-four years with the Manitoba Department of Agriculture, including a decade as Deputy Minister. She has sat at the table for every framework negotiation since the year 2000. Tyler McCann, managing director of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, has worked every side of the policy process from inside government, in industry, and on his own farm. Hear how policy moves the needle, where the next framework needs to focus, and why, as Tyler puts it, "we need to speak with one voice where we agree, and have respectful disagreement when we don't."