Protecting Ontario’s Food Independence Act, 2026
Sponsored by Jones, Hon. Trevor · Second Reading Consideration of a Bill
- A wide-ranging agriculture bill that restructures oversight of beef, milk and food safety rules, creates a new farmland ownership restriction, and updates tribunals, food dealer protections and veterinary regulation.
- Producers providing cattle for custom processing must hold a licence, or are deemed to hold one
- Producers processing their own cattle must pay prescribed licence fees as if cattle were sold
- Producers can seek reimbursement of licence fees for up to two head processed for personal use
- Repeals sections 10-16, removing carcass-weight purchase rules and related hearing/appeal processes
- Transfers powers and duties of the Normal Farm Practices Protection Board to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Protection Tribunal
- Makes other amendments, including transitional rules, to reflect this transfer
- Prohibits designated persons, including foreign nationals or certain entities, from purchasing or acquiring farmland