Jeff Traeger, President and Chief Executive Officer with UFCW Local 832, said the strike vote was a first for the plant and was taken in response to Maple Leaf’s refusal to take the bargaining process seriously so far.

Maple Leaf has been pushing major concessions at the table, and the union members have shown they are united and want a fair deal, he said.

The union and Maple Leaf were back at the bargaining table Monday, Nov. 17. Negotiations are expected to continue right up to the current contract’s expiry on Dec. 31.

UFCW 832’s bargaining committee is made up of seven members from various departments at the plant, and three staff members from the union. The committee first started to collect proposals from the membership in February and brought these proposals to the bargaining table in May.

The Lagomidiere plant in Winnipeg produces and packages pork products, including bacon.

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In a note pinned to the top of the program’s official website, the CGC noted that the strike was causing mail delays with the program.

Farmers were urged to, if possible, deliver their samples directly to the CGC, either at their head office in downtown Winnipeg, another CGC office or service centre, or another approved drop off site.

Service centres are located in British Columbia (Prince Rupert), Alberta (Calgary); Saskatchewan (Saskatoon and Weyburn), Manitoba (Churchill), Ontario (Thunder Bay and Hamilton) and Québec (Baie-Comeau and Québec City). Western and eastern regional offices can be found in Vancouver and Montréal, respectively. A full list, phone numbers and addresses can be found on the CGC’s webpage through the Government of Canada website.

“Please contact the office or service centre you’re visiting to confirm they have a sample drop off box available,” the website advises.

Besides CGC offices, drop off sites have been arranged at the following locations:

• BroadGrain Commodities Inc. – Dafoe, Sask.
• Bunge – Lethbridge County, Alta.
• All Paterson Grain elevators in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba
• Sakai Spice – Lethbridge, Alta.

Farmers may also choose to keep their sample until the strike ends, the CGC said.

On Oct. 10, Canada Post said that mail service would resume after the Thanksgiving long weekend, as they moved to rotating, rather than nationwide, strikes.

The last day to mail samples is Nov. 30, 2025. Dec. 31, 2025 is the last day for any samples to be included in this year’s Harvest Sample Program.

Testing for quality

The cross-country Harvest Sample Program is a voluntary initiative for testing a host of quality factors across a range of crops.

For each sample, inspectors provide unofficial grade and quality results at no charge, including:

• Falling number for wheat and rye,
• Vomitoxin (deoxynivalenol or DON) levels for wheat, corn, barley and oats,
• Dockage assessment on canola and mustard seed,
• Protein content on barley, beans, chickpeas, lentils, oats, peas and wheat,
• Oil, protein and chlorophyll content for canola,
• Oil and protein content and iodine value for flaxseed, and
• Oil and protein for mustard seed and soybeans.

A CGC inspection supervisor said producer participants appear to be taking the inconvenience in stride.

“There hasn’t been a lot of complaints or anything. I haven’t heard one complaint,” said Judy Elias with the Weyburn, Sask., service centre.

“We’re all used to strikes, so there’s just new ways to do old business.”

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From April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, Employment and Social Development Canada inspected 1,435 employers for compliance, the agency said in an Oct. 6 news release. Ten per cent were found to be non-compliant.

In the same period, nearly $4.9 million in penalties were levied, up from about $2.1 million the previous year.

Agriculture, construction employers among those punished

Examples of non-compliance included an agricultural employer who was fined $212,000 and was banned from the TFW program for two years for “failing to provide proper working conditions” and not providing required documents to inspectors.

A construction employer was banned from the program for five years and fined $161,000 for failing to provide proper wages and working conditions, and for lack of compliance with federal and provincial labour laws.

A fish and seafood employer received a penalty of $1 million and a 10-year ban for failing to provide proper wages and working conditions, and for non-compliance with labour laws.

“To date, this is the biggest penalty ever issued by the Department,” the news release said.

“It is clear that improvements to the TFW Program are needed. This starts with a focused approach that targets specific strategic sectors and needs in specific regions,” it added.

TFW program to be trimmed

This echoed comments Prime Minister Mark Carney made to Liberal caucus members in September.

At the Sept. 10 event, Carney said his government aims to reduce the total number of temporary foreign workers and international students to less than five per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027, CBC reported.

In early September, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said the TFW program should be scrapped and a standalone agriculture program should be created. Poilievre cited Canadian unemployment as the main reason for the plan.

A bit more than 78,000 temporary foreign workers were employed in Canadian agricultural industries in 2024, Statistics Canada data shows.

The current Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) allows primary agriculture employers to bring in seasonal workers from Mexico and the Caribbean. However, farmers and food producers may also hire workers through the TFW Program.

Program under scrutiny

The program has also faced a barrage of scrutiny in recent years. A February report from Amnesty International called the system “inherently exploitative and discriminatory.” It called for measures like greater flexibility of work permits, removal of permanent residency criteria that it said discriminates against low-skill workers, and for improved worker access to healthcare and adequate housing.

The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association pointed to “decades of continuous improvements” that allowed for more mobility options within SAWP. It said that program sets the gold standard for TFW programs.

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From April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, Employment and Social Development Canada inspected 1,435 employers for compliance, the agency said in an Oct. 6 news release. Ten per cent were found to be non-compliant.

In the same period, nearly $4.9 million in penalties were levied, up from about $2.1 million the previous year.

Agriculture, construction employers among those punished

Examples of non-compliance included an agricultural employer who was fined $212,000 and was banned from the TFW program for two years for “failing to provide proper working conditions” and not providing required documents to inspectors.

A construction employer was banned from the program for five years and fined $161,000 for failing to provide proper wages and working conditions, and for lack of compliance with federal and provincial labour laws.

A fish and seafood employer received a penalty of $1 million and a 10-year ban for failing to provide proper wages and working conditions, and for non-compliance with labour laws.

“To date, this is the biggest penalty ever issued by the Department,” the news release said.

“It is clear that improvements to the TFW Program are needed. This starts with a focused approach that targets specific strategic sectors and needs in specific regions,” it added.

TFW program to be trimmed

This echoed comments Prime Minister Mark Carney made to Liberal caucus members in September.

At the Sept. 10 event, Carney said his government aims to reduce the total number of temporary foreign workers and international students to less than five per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027, CBC reported.

In early September, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said the TFW program should be scrapped and a standalone agriculture program should be created. Poilievre cited Canadian unemployment as the main reason for the plan.

A bit more than 78,000 temporary foreign workers were employed in Canadian agricultural industries in 2024, Statistics Canada data shows.

The current Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) allows primary agriculture employers to bring in seasonal workers from Mexico and the Caribbean. However, farmers and food producers may also hire workers through the TFW Program.

Program under scrutiny

The program has also faced a barrage of scrutiny in recent years. A February report from Amnesty International called the system “inherently exploitative and discriminatory.” It called for measures like greater flexibility of work permits, removal of permanent residency criteria that it said discriminates against low-skill workers, and for improved worker access to healthcare and adequate housing.

The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association pointed to “decades of continuous improvements” that allowed for more mobility options within SAWP. It said that program sets the gold standard for TFW programs.

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The Free Trade and Labour Mobility Act is part of the One Canadian Economy legislation that received Parliamentary Royal Assent on June 26. The act looks to ensure that:

• Goods and services produced, provided or distributed under provincial or territorial requirements are recognized as meeting comparable federal requirements related to interprovincial trade.
• Workers licensed or certified by a province or territory can work in comparable occupations in federal jurisdictions without additional requirements.

Regulations under the act are under development to specify requirements including what makes federal rules comparable to provincial ones, the federal government said in a news release on Thursday.

The federal government will hold national and regional consultations with industry, business and labour representatives, including agriculture and agri-food groups, in the coming month. It is also calling for written submissions.

Interprovincial trade, labour mobility could benefit farmers

Interprovincial trade — a longtime matter of debate — has been a hot topic with federal and provincial governments this year as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have threatened national exports.

In February, the Trudeau government said it would remove 20 out of 39 exeptions to the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA). These mainly related to government procurement.

A March meeting saw Canada’s premiers agree to reduce barriers, including those around direct-to-consumer alcohol sales. Recently, Manitoba signed economic co-operation agreements with New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.

Manitoba producer groups have cheered moves toward greater interprovincial trade.

“Having uniformity and consistency in standards is key, and it is also important that these standards meet the standards our customers require as part of international trade agreements,” Manitoba Beef Producers general manager Carson Callum said in May after Manitoba tabled the Fair Trade in Canada Act.

The act passed in early June.

“Removing regulatory barriers across provinces that impact efficiencies — such as transport regulations — are areas our sector feels are key areas of focus to improve interprovincial trade,” Callum added.

Cam Dahl, general manager of the Manitoba Pork Council, said the Manitoba bill was a step toward greater labour mobility. For example, he suggested, a veterinarian certified in Ontario would be able work in Manitoba. He also flagged difficulties in transport regulations.

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Why it matters: Canada could face a labour shortage in the agriculture sector without engaging key demographics like youth and post-secondary graduates.

The sector’s failure to stay competitive following several increases to Ontario’s minimum wage may have hurt its chances with young Ontarians, especially recent post-secondary graduates, but data shows there are still pathways for youth to make a living in agriculture.

One of the main barriers to getting youth involved in agriculture careers is a lack of interest.

Pierre Valley, economic development officer with Bruce County and member of Bruce County’s Workforce Strategy, said the agriculture sector has recently had difficulty employing youth.

“There’s job postings within the industry, but it’s probably one of the lower posting industries out there,” he said.

“The reality is, the agriculture industry has had such a hard time with finding and attracting people over the years, I would say that they’ve almost given up, for lack of better words, going through conventional measures to try and hire people.”

Ellen Gregg, supervisor of employment services with Bruce County, said it can be difficult to find reliable and consistent data on agriculture employment since hiring is often done through existing family and community connections, or word of mouth.

Regular seasonal layoffs in agriculture also make job posting data difficult to analyze.

There are several reasons for these challenges, including difficulties with transportation and the tendency for only those who already have rural backgrounds to show interest in rural jobs. Much of this divide may come from the values and work philosophy of generation Z, though.

“The values that youth have today are completely different than the values of people that are hiring them,” said Valley. “Youth have actually listened to their parents. And the parents have said … since the day they were born, ‘don’t be a slave to the man.’ You know, ‘make sure you have work-life balance.’”

“Their child has now gotten to the point where they’re getting employed, and the child is saying ‘I don’t want to work overtime. I don’t want to work on the weekends. I want to have that work-life balance. Because you’ve told me for the last 15-20 years that that’s what I should be doing.’

And then yet, that person who told them that the whole time, who’s now the employer, is saying ‘I can’t get people to work overtime.’”

According to a 2023 report from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC), Gen Z showed higher-than-average interest in workplace features like comfortable break rooms, transportation and travel assistance and the opportunity to take days off without pay.

Out of all generations surveyed, Gen Z was the least likely to agree with the statement “I would want to stay with the same organization for as long as I can.”

Some of these values could get in the way of traditional on-farm careers. However, Jennifer Wright, CAHRC’s executive director, said youth in Ontario are showing interest in agriculture jobs.

“When I say there’s interest, I mean we’ve gone from absolutely zero to just a little bit,” Wright said.

“It’s not like, oh, all urban students are interested in agriculture. Most of them still aren’t aware,” she said.

“However, in general, I think we have an opportunity to grow that attraction of young people into the industry.”

Capitalizing on this could involve making some students aware of non-standard jobs within the sector.

“It’s more the work and the thought of the work — like being out in the field, in the heat, there’s other opportunities where you can work indoors and not be outside.”

Wright said the organization still has a lot of work to do to make youth aware and understand what opportunities are available, and what modern agriculture is all about.

“But I would say that we are starting to see a little bit more interest, not just from youth that have grown up in rural environments, but a bit more interest from youth or post-secondary students that are more from urban settings as well.”

Wage disparity?

Wages within agriculture vary depending on the position. Some haven’t kept up with the provincial average, while others may have more growth potential.

According to statistics from the Government of Canada, agriculture managers make an average of $24.52/hour, with agriculture service contractors and farm supervisors slightly lower at $22.50. The Government of Ontario lists the average hourly wage rate in the province as $36.14.

The Economic Policy Research Institute at Western University lists the average annual salary for crop farmers in Ontario as $81,000, with a significant disparity between the entry level salary at $58,000 and senior level at $98,000. According to the job recruiting website Indeed, the average base salary for farm labourers in Ontario in around $20/hour, and $25/hour for farm managers. Ontario’s minimum wage is currently $17.20/hour.

Wright said pay is not always the most important factor for youth when job-seeking, however.

“The jobs are well paid for the work, but it’s the work that people are not as interested in doing,” she said. “Even if they make $1 less an hour working fast food or retail, or whatever it might be. They’re not out in the field, in the heat or working with animals, where it smells.”

This ties back into the problem of recruiting, though Government of Ontario data suggests employment in both management and agriculture positions is on the rise.

Between January 2023-24, management jobs in Ontario grew by 130,700. The agriculture industry saw growth in employment during that period, but only barely, at only 400 jobs added.

Valley said even when jobs pay more than the provincial minimum wage, it still may not be enough to appeal to the younger generation. He also said above-average paying jobs in agriculture have not always stayed competitive with minimum wage increases in Ontario. According to a 2022 report from Policy Alternatives, “all industries with lower-than-average wages, except for agriculture and manufacturing, had increases in employment” following the implementation of the $14 minimum wage in 2018.

CAHRC research suggests Canada’s agriculture sector is in a “chronic labour shortage,” with more than 28,000 jobs unfilled in 2022. Employers will need a new approach to save the sector from further shortages.

In 2023, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released the What We Heard Report, which identified the challenges employers have in attracting workers citing “rural location, type of work and wages.”

The report aimed to work with provinces, organizations and stakeholders to develop an Agriculture Labour Strategy. CAHRC was listed in the report as a partner working to address labour issues.

Wright said there is still investment needed in the workforce strategy, and the sector has not yet seen the full impact of the report.

“There’s not one solution for everything in agriculture, that’s for sure,” she said.

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Rollins said the administration wants a 100 per cent American workforce and suggested some people receiving government aid could replace immigrant workers.

“Ultimately, the answer on this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure. And then also, when you think about, there are 34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America,” she said at a press conference outside the Department of Agriculture headquarters.

Most adults on Medicaid work full- or part-time or are not working due to illness or disability, caregiving, or school attendance, according to a May brief by the health policy organization KFF.

The farm sector has warned that mass deportation of farm workers would disrupt the U.S. food supply. In June, the Trump administration signaled it might pause raids on some farm worksites. It has since reversed course.

Trump’s tax-cut and spending bill, passed on July 3, introduces work requirements for Medicaid, which the Congressional Budget Office has said is expected to leave nearly 12 million people uninsured.

Later on Tuesday, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer said at a cabinet meeting at the White House that the Department of Labor had developed a new office to work with farmers and ranchers, but did not provide more details.

The Labor Department oversees the H-2A program, which provides seasonal visas for agricultural workers.

Farmland owned by ‘adversaries’

Rollins also said at the press conference that the USDA will curb farmland purchases by “foreign adversaries,” including China, and terminate agreements and contracts with people and entities from those countries.

Asked about land already owned by Chinese-owned companies Syngenta and Smithfield Foods, Rollins said the administration is still considering its options.

“You’ll likely see an executive order on this very soon from the White House and we’ll be looking at multiple different authorities within the federal government to begin to claw that back,” Rollins said.

In 2023, Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 160 acres (65 hectares) of farmland under a state law barring some foreign entities from acquiring or holding land.

Twenty-six states limit or ban foreign businesses, governments or nationals from owning private farmland, according to the National Agricultural Law Center, and some of those laws have faced legal challenges.

Only about 3.4 per cent of U.S. farmland is owned by foreign entities, and Canada owns the largest share, about 30 per cent, according to the USDA.

Rollins said she will be a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, “as of this afternoon.” The interagency body reviews foreign investments in the U.S. for national security threats.

Bipartisan lawmakers have supported limits on ownership of farmland by foreign countries, citing national security concerns.

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“I think we need to find our hook in some of those core government priorities,” said Brodie Berigan, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s (CFA) senior director of government relations and farm policy.

Berigan spoke alongside Food and Beverage Canada CEO Kristina Farrell and Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council (CAHRC) executive director Jennifer Wright in a webinar on June 26.

Large financial commitments to things like defense and housing could draw away workers from an already strained agriculture and food labour force, Wright said.

The sector should look at how its priorities fit into the government’s mandate and use that as an entry point for advocacy, Berigan said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney set seven priorities in his mandate letter earlier this year, including building “one Canadian economy” by removing barriers to interprovincial trade, establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S., strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces, and making housing more affordable.

The mandate letter also mentioned “attracting the best talent in the world” while balancing immigration rates.

It’s hard to know what this means, Berigan said. He speculated this could be targeted at Americans who are feeling insecure in their job and who may be interested to move to Canada.

Need to build consensus

The Agri-food sector needs also needs to agree on what it needs so it can present a unified voice to the government.

“When you are the government, and you have a diverse set of stakeholders who are calling for different things, it’s very easy to do nothing,” Berigan said.

More than 100 members of the agriculture and food sector met for a summit on June 11 and 12 in Toronto. Berigan said the need to strengthen employers’ human resource capacity came up a lot—specifically, the need to support employers to build capacity around tech solutions and a labour pool that will increasingly rely on technology to drive productivity.

The sector also needs to identify its skills gaps, said Farrell. Berigan said the need for a “skills gap map” came up at the summit. The government already has some of this data, but needs to hear it from the industry.

Programs in flux

The federal government is at the beginning of a new mandate and structuring its priorities, Berigan said. A lot of programs are in flux, including the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The sector needs to clearly articulate the advantage of pursuing a multi-pronged approach like the National Workforce Strategic Plan that the CFA, CAHRC and Food and Beverage Canada have developed, he added. It also needs some sense as to how it will implement it.

“I think the clock is definitely ticking,” Berigan said.

“Unless we’re in there, able to articulate the value and the role of these types of strategies and the importance of them, decisions are going to be made without us.”

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“I want to inspire the University community as we navigate this bold new chapter,” said Van Acker, noting the school is on a pathway to becoming a globally recognized top-tier university. “This moment calls for us to transform how we think and what we imagine is possible.”

Why it matters: Van Acker brings 30 years of experience in academia, including senior leadership roles such as chair of the Department of Plant Agriculture, dean of the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), and vice-president (research and innovation).

Van Acker’s innovative thinking and grounded leadership style make him an ideal leader, said Nancy Brown Andison, chair of the Board of Governors and the Presidential Search Committee.

“He has overseen multimillion-dollar research portfolios and built high-impact initiatives amid resource constraints, demonstrating a proven record of vision and action,” said Brown Andison. “Dr. Rene Van Acker is the leader needed to help elevate the institution to the next level.” Van Acker brings a “think big” approach to the presidency, stating that despite the University’s Canadian rank as ninth for reputation, first for veterinary science, and among the top in total research funding with more than 20 Canada Research Chairs, “we often perceive ourselves as ‘smaller’ than we actually are.”

“It is time to recognize our scale and impact and to not limit ourselves,” he said. “Our mission to improve life and our ability to solve real-world challenges are clearly needed in the world.” Leveraging U of G’s expertise to make a global impact is integral to the school’s culture and attracts people to the institution. Currently, the university is exploring ways to protect global groundwater resources, cataloguing every species in the world’s largest DNA library, and securing the food supply.

“(We are) tackling emerging diseases through One Health, improving the mental health of communities, exploring the human experience through interdisciplinary creativity and advancing ethical, sustainable business practices that shape tomorrow’s leaders — all under one institution,” Van Acker said. “These are just a few examples of our many strengths. We do great things — I know we will do greater.”

Van Acker said that advancing an institution progressively is a team effort, with each member contributing academic and research excellence to provide students with a foundation in ethical, collaborative, practical, and ‘real world’ skills.

“This is how bold new chapters begin,” he said. “Forward, together.”

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told field office heads during a call on Monday that it would roll back a directive issued last week that largely paused raids on the businesses, the former officials said, requesting anonymity to discuss the new guidance.

ICE officials were told a daily quota to make 3,000 arrests per day — 10 times the average last year during former President Joe Biden’s administration – would remain in effect, the former officials said. ICE field office heads had raised concerns they could not meet the quota without raids at the businesses that had been exempted, one of the sources said.

It was not clear why last week’s directive was reversed. Some ICE officials left the call confused, and it appeared they would still need to tread carefully with raids on the previously exempted businesses, the former officials said.

‘No safe spaces’

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said ICE would continue to make arrests at worksites but did not respond to questions about the new guidance.

“There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine ICE’s efforts,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Washington Post first reported the reversal.

Trump took office in January aiming to deport record numbers of immigrants in the U.S. illegally. ICE doubled the pace of arrests under Trump compared with last year but still remains far below what would be needed to deport millions of people.

Top White House aide Stephen Miller ordered ICE in late May to dramatically increase arrests to 3,000 per day, leading to intensified raids that prominently targeted some businesses.

‘Chaos and confusion since the beginning’

Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that farms and hotel businesses had been suffering from the ramped up enforcement but also said, without evidence or explanation, that criminals were trying to fill those jobs.

ICE issued guidance that day pausing most immigration enforcement at agricultural, hospitality and food processing businesses. But in another Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump called on ICE to target the Democratic strongholds of Los Angeles, Chicago and New York and to use the full extent of their authority to increase deportations.

A White House official said Trump was keeping a promise to deliver the country’s single largest mass deportation program.

“Anyone present in the United States illegally is at risk of deportation,” the White House official said.

Deborah Fleischaker, who held senior roles at both DHS and ICE during Biden’s presidency, said the shifting ICE guidance reflects broader turmoil at the agency since Trump took office. The White House has ousted multiple ICE leaders as it pressed for more arrests.

“It has been chaos and confusion since the beginning,” she said.

Farmers push back

The intensified ICE enforcement after Miller’s late May order renewed long-running concerns among farmers about ICE operations targeting their workforce. Nearly half the nation’s approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as do many dairy and meatpacking workers.

Farm industry fears escalated last week when ICE detentions and arrests of workers were reported at California farms, a Nebraska meatpacking plant and a New Mexico dairy.

Livestock and restaurant sector representatives said on a press call organized by the American Business Immigration Coalition on Tuesday that raids make operations more difficult in their heavily immigrant-dependent industries.

“The people pushing for these raids that target farms and feedyards and dairies have no idea how farms operate,” said Matt Teagarden, CEO of the Kansas Livestock Association.

Michael Marsh, CEO of the National Council of Agricultural Employers, said farm groups had not had enough input into the administration’s decision-making so far on immigration enforcement in agriculture.

Marsh said he had not received responses from Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins, Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials to a letter sent last week requesting a meeting.

“We’ve got a serious issue if we have almost a million of our workers that are going to be subject to deportation,” he said. “Because if that’s the case, and they are picked up and they are gone, we can’t fill those positions.”

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