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From: Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin <mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com>
Date: Thu, May 28, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Subject: Elizabeth's MLA Update for Cumberland North May 28 2026
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Cumberland North
Community Q & A with MP John Barlow - On Saturday, May 30, I
will be welcoming MP John Barlow, Shadow Minister for Agriculture,
Agri-Food and Food Security, to Amherst for a public Community Q & A
on the closure of the Nappan Agricultural Research Station
and the future of agricultural research in Atlantic Canada.
MP
Barlow will be joined by MP Dave Epp, MP Carol Anstey, and MP Richard
Bragdon, who are also coming to hear directly from our community about
the importance of Nappan. MP Dave Epp represents
Chatham-Kent-Leamington, Ontario, serves on the House of Commons
Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, and is a farmer by
profession. MP Carol Anstey represents Long Range Mountains,
Newfoundland
and Labrador, bringing an important Atlantic Canadian and rural
community perspective. MP Richard Bragdon represents Tobique-Mactaquac,
New Brunswick, serves on the House of Commons Standing Committee on
Agriculture and Agri-Food, and has already raised concerns
at committee about science in Canadian agriculture and the closure of
research centres.
While
he is in Cumberland North, MP Barlow will also tour local farms and
meet directly with producers. He wants to hear from the people most
affected
by the decision to close the Nappan Agricultural Research Station.
Nappan
is not just Cumberland’s farm. It is part of Atlantic Canada’s
agricultural infrastructure and losing it will be felt well beyond our
county.
Producers need research, science, innovation, and federal support close
to their communities doing the work.
This
matters because the Nappan Agricultural Research Station is located in
one of the most agriculturally significant areas of our province.
Cumberland
County, including the land connected to the Chignecto Isthmus, has rich
soil, deep agricultural roots, and a long history of supporting food
production, livestock, forage research, and farm families. This is not
land that can be replaced somewhere else. The
research done here reflects the climate, soil, geography, and realities
of farming in Atlantic Canada.
Food
security is not just about having food on grocery store shelves today.
It is about maintaining the research, infrastructure, knowledge, and
regional capacity needed to support farmers for the future. When
federal agricultural research is pulled out of Atlantic Canada, it
weakens our ability to respond to changing conditions, support
producers, improve production, and protect the long-term stability
of our food system.
That
is why this visit matters. MP Barlow and the other MPs joining him are
coming to listen, see the local impact, and take what they hear back
to Ottawa as part of the continued fight for our experimental farm.
Nova
Scotia has 11 federal MPs. When it comes to defending Nappan, the
science it supports, and the future of agriculture in Nova Scotia, the
“Elusive
11” have been missing in action.
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. noon
Location: Conference Room, 5 Ratchford Street, Amherst, NS
I
encourage residents, producers, and everyone concerned about the future
of agriculture in our region to attend, ask questions, and make sure
your
voice is heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8RYX-wLy0
May 29, 2026
How do you MAGA - Make America Great Again? According to Mark Carney, the answer is, MCS, Make Canada Strong. That was part of the message the PM gave American business leaders in New York yesterday and guess who was clapping? Pete Hoekstra, one of Donald Trump's leading Canadian critics, is the U.S. ambassador to Canada. It's been quite a week. Bruce and Chantal are here to discuss and put it all in context.
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From: Guilbeault, Steven - Député <Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, May 29, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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A strong Canada 'will help make America great again,' Carney tells New York business leaders
Carney says Canada and U.S. need a 'new partnership'
Prime Minister Mark Carney told a crowd of New York industry titans and financiers on Thursday that Canada and the U.S. need to pursue a new partnership — a bilateral relationship premised not on how things were done in the past but one where a stronger, more independent Canada can selectively help "make America great again."
Carney said as U.S. President Donald Trump prompts "tectonic shifts" in trade, and as the world becomes "more divided and dangerous," Canada must focus more on "taking care of ourselves" and building up at home by embracing its status as an energy superpower.
But that doesn't mean Canada wants to close itself off from the U.S., Carney said in lunchtime remarks to about 200 attendees at the city's Yale Club.
Rather, he said the government wants the two sides to pursue a "true partnership" and better co-operate on some strategic sectors, notably those hammered by Trump's sectoral tariffs.
'Canada Strong will help make America great again': Carney pitches new partnership with U.S.Nodding to the "Fortress North America" concept floated by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and some U.S. interests, which prioritizes continental co-operation in the face of Chinese economic threats, Carney said this new relationship would "re-imagine co-operation in specific sectors deeply challenged by global competition."
Carney said the U.S. is dependent on Canadian oil, natural gas, electricity, aluminum, potash, nickel, copper and industrial components, and the two sides should do more business together in these sectors, not less.
"That is mutual strength. Canada Strong will help make America great again. The examples are legion where we should work together and compete with the world together," he said.
Carney said his government has pitched "specific, practical proposals," on autos, aluminum, energy and minerals to the Americans to move on from this period of trade antagonism.
Carney didn't say what the reception has been to those ideas. But there have been no formal trade talks in months, and there are no apparent signs a breakthrough is imminent.
Carney signalled that the old relationship where a subservient Canada essentially falls in line with what the U.S. wants is over.
What should replace it is a bilateral relationship featuring "a different Canada, a stronger Canada, a more confident Canada" that can deliver what the U.S needs on more equitable terms, he said.
Those ideas drew applause from the crowd, which included U.S.-based staff of Canadian banks and prominent businesspeople like billionaire real estate and grocery magnate John Catsimatidis.
Speaking later during a fireside chat with the Economic Club of New York, Carney projected some confidence that there will be a resolution to the irritants that plague the Canada-U.S. trading relationship.
"We'll work our way through it," Carney said.
Carney said Canada is leaning into its strengths, developing energy and investing in the defence and space sectors — creating "huge opportunities" for the U.S. because the economy at home is getting bigger and richer.
On energy in particular, Carney said, Canada sits on an abundance of oil and gas and generates clean electricity that can help power the economic revolution that's underway stateside as artificial intelligence-related development explodes.
There will be an "acute" energy shortage in the U.S. as AI takes off, Carney said, and Canada "can be part of the solution."
Carney raised the government's recent decision to fast-track a major graphite mine in Quebec and help negotiate a major B.C. LNG purchase agreement with Germany, as examples of Ottawa moving quickly to stand up industries that make lucrative products the world needs.
Developing those resources, sometimes in partnership with American interests, "is a structural solution to a new partnership with the U.S.," he said.
Carney's call for a better and reworked partnership follows a recent shift in tone on the U.S. issue.
While still stressing there's been a "rupture" in the Canada-U.S. relationship amid Trump's protectionist push, this is the second high-profile speech in as many weeks where he has called for a peaceful resolution to trade issues as the CUSMA review date of July 1 looms.
In a recent address to progressive activists in Toronto, Carney said Canada "remains open to deeper integration" with the U.S. in certain sectors.
"And to be clear, those offers are on the table," he said.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has insisted that some tariffs will remain on Canadian goods. (Aurelien Morissard/The Associated Press)Carney's remarks come at a time when U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer insists there will be tariffs on some Canadian goods, something Carney's negotiators are actively trying to avoid.
"We have to have some degree of tariff to deal with the giant deficit," Greer said this week during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
"Most countries said, 'We understand and we will remove some non-tariff barriers.' Canada's approach has been different," he said.
Greer's office announced Wednesday a series of dates over the summer when the U.S. and Mexico will sit down to negotiate the upcoming CUSMA review. No dates were set for talks with Canada.
However, a spokesperson for Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told CBC News that "planning is underway" for a trip to Washington sometime soon.
Like Carney on Thursday, Greer said there are areas where there is "common economic benefit," like energy, critical minerals and fertilizer.
But "when it comes to some economic goods, we have a different view," he said, pointing to autos as an area where the U.S. wants to dominate and, in turn, suppress Canadian manufacturing through the aggressive use of tariffs.
"I think on some of these issues it will be a challenging negotiation but on some issues it will be fine," he said.
Steve Verheul, Canada's former top trade negotiator who helped broker CUSMA, said Canada is in a difficult position.
The Americans are demanding important concessions — scrapping the Online Streaming Act, reworking dairy import quotas and dropping the provincial ban on U.S. liquor — while offering seemingly no tariff relief in return.
"I think we're we're pretty firmly stuck," he said. "There's a negotiating table that isn't lining up very well in terms of even having a conversation.
"I think we really are in a position where we could be stuck for a considerable period of time."
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile, criticized what he described as Carney's "buzzword-laden" speech, saying it's not clear where the prime minister stands on the U.S. relationship.
"On the one hand he says that we are in the middle of a rupture with the United States. While on the other he says he wants to make America, in his words, 'great again.' He can't seem to decide if integration with the U.S. is a strength or a weakness," Poilievre said.
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Ava Peacock BA (Hist.), BEd, MA (Engl.), is the research project manager for the Aristotle Foundation. She works closely with the research director to help shepherd projects from conception through publication. Ava holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Ambrose University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Calgary, and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Calgary. She has worked in a variety of positions within the education and publishing sectors. Ava also serves as a proofreader/editor for the Aristotle Foundation.
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Dami Itabiyi is the Media and Marketing Coordinator at the Aristotle Foundation. She brings experience in design, communications, and marketing strategy, helping to make complex ideas clear and accessible to diverse audiences. She has led design and communications projects for nonprofits, with experience spanning branding and visual storytelling. She holds a Master of Environmental Design from the University of Lagos and a Graphic Design diploma from Reeves College in Calgary.
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Kristy Koehler is the executive assistant to the president. She worked for over a decade as a small business owner and brings years of experience in event planning, having directed large-scale public events, donor functions, and conferences. Kristy holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Calgary.
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Cathy Simpson, BA (Hons), MLIS, is Outreach and Engagement Officer at the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. She works to make the foundation’s research accessible to individuals and groups looking to make a positive impact in Canada. Cathy brings extensive experience in community outreach, engagement and communications, developed over a career in libraries spanning the corporate, academic, and public sectors. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto and specialized in business research and local history. Cathy most recently served as CEO of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library for twelve years. She has contributed chapters in two local history books and written several commentaries on library neutrality, censorship and viewpoint diversity.
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