Making the best of a cold climate – Regulatory changes to Canada’s Ice Wine Industry
Canada wants to ratify the World Wine Trade Group Agreement on Requirements for Wine Labelling and this will require changes to Canada’s current wine labelling regime for ice wine. Ice wine is Canada’s largest wine export, in dollar terms. While...
This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: The Effects of Legislative Changes on Saskatchewan’s Non-Resident Farmland Ownership Regime
Nearly 40% of Canada’s farm land is located in Saskatchewan. Land values have risen of late, but are still lower than many other parts of Canada and the world. As a result, there has been intense interest in foreign investment...
Alberta Courts Consider Foreign Ownership of Farm Land Regulations
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba all restrict the ability of foreigners to own farm land. The legislation in each province is different. Alberta’s Foreign Ownership Regulations allow up to 49% of foreign ownership through Canadian corporations and partnerships. In three Alberta...
Keeping Cool: An Update on the Canada-US Labelling Dispute
Author: Collin May The deadline for the US to come into compliance with the decisions of a WTO Appellate Body – May 23, 2013 – has come and gone. The Appellate Body upheld an earlier WTO Panel ruling declaring that American...
Country-of-Origin-Labelling: Not so Cool
Author: Collin May Country-of-Origin-Labelling, or COOL for short, may lead to a trade showdown with Canada and Mexico on one side and the United States on the other with Canadian agricultural producers caught in the middle. In 2003, the US...
AALP: Training for Agricultural Leadership in Ontario
On the evening of April 6, 2013, Bob Berry with Miller Thomson’s Guelph office, attended the graduation ceremony and banquet for Class 14 of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP) run by the Rural Ontario Institute. AALP brings together 30...
More agri-tax news: Manufacturing fish results in tax exemption in BC
More on the tax front: this time from the BC Supreme Court… In Pacific National Processing Ltd. v. HMTQ (BC), released February 5, 2013, Madam Justice Adair of the BC Supreme Court clarified the application of the provincial Social Services...
Securing Financial Interests in Crops, Machinery, and other Agricultural Property in Quebec
HYPOTHECS IN QUEBEC – GRANTING SECURITY OVER PROPERTY Prepared by Dany Afram in Miller Thomson’s Montreal office In the Province of Quebec, charges, mortgages or liens granted as security for the payment of debts and the performance of covenants in...
Farm Fixtures: A Saskatchewan Perspective
Our February 28th blog post (“Farm Fixtures: Feed Bunks, Portable Cattle Squeezes, Feedmills and Granaries”) provided an excellent overview of the law surrounding farm fixtures in Canada. This post intends to build on it by offering perspective from one of...
Federal Budget 2013 – Proposed Amendments to the Tax Rules on Restricted Farm Losses
The Federal Budget was released yesterday and of particular interest to the agriculture sector are proposed amendments to the tax provisions on restricted farm losses. Read the extensive Budget analysis from Miller Thomson’s Tax Group. The excerpt on Restricted Farm...
