by Ashley Peyrard | Déc 8, 2025 | Actualités
December 8th, 2025 The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, P.C., M.P. President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada Minister...
by Ashley Peyrard | Nov 27, 2025 | Actualités
OTTAWA, ON – The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) held their annual joint-advocacy event, Fall Harvest 2025, this week in Ottawa. The event, held every November, brings together produce industry...
by Ashley Peyrard | Nov 5, 2025 | Actualités
The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) welcomes targeted steps in Budget 2025, including a productivity super-deduction to encourage investment and new funding to digitize CFIA export certificates. However, FVGC is disappointed that today’s federal budget...
by Ashley Peyrard | Nov 3, 2025 | Actualités
The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) President, Marcus Janzen, wishes to announce that Massimo Bergamini will begin a transition from his role as Executive Director as he moves toward retirement. The Board is grateful for his leadership and for the...
by Ashley Peyrard | Sep 3, 2025 | Actualités
“Federal Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre today called for the scrapping of the federal Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. While we will not comment on the effectiveness of the TFW as it applies to other industries or sectors of our economy, the importance of...
by Ashley Peyrard | Août 7, 2025 | Actualités
OTTAWA, ON – Massimo Bergamini, Executive Director of the Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC), today announced the appointment of Dr. Erik Nielsen to the newly-created role of Director of Policy, Research and Public Affairs. Erik brings over two decades of...