SOME MEASURES TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY IN CANADA Invited Submission On Rural Poverty. Senate Standing Committee On Agriculture And Forestry Ottawa: 9 November 2006

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SOME MEASURES TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY IN
CANADAInvited Submission On Rural
Poverty.Senate Standing Committee On Agriculture
And ForestryOttawa 9 November 2006

• Leonard P. Apedaile
• Smoky Lake County, Alberta

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MEASURE No. 1

• Promote rural/metro alliances
• around common interests,
• to learn from the emerging connectedness of rural
  and metro
• Connected economies
• Connected ecologies
• Connected justice issues.

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MEASURE No. 2

• Reduce transactions costs for people
• changing jobs
• moving between the formal and informal economies
• trading productive assets.

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MEASURE No. 3

• Strengthen the performance of the informal
  economy
• Recognize the role played by the informal economy
  in the competitiveness and risk management of the
  formal economy.

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MEASURE No. 4

• Weaken the low rural income trap.
• Labour and asset mobility
• Capacity of the workforce to perform in the
  digital workplace
• Offset global extraction of rural economic rents.

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MEASURE No. 5

• Assist rural artisan SME and community
  enterprises (social economy)
• proactively
• to improve
• performance
• safety standards

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MEASURE No. 6

• Twin
• rural and metro schools
• and school boards
• and municipal services
• and arts councils
• and, and, and.

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MEASURE No. 7

• Connect justice, mental health and social
  wellness policies,
• Be sensitive to downloading issues.

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MEASURE No. 8

• Determine the public good value produced by
  farming,
• and compensate farmers for delivering it.

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MEASURE No. 9

• Accelerate inclusion of industrial agriculture
  and agricultural processing under the umbrella of
  labour and environmental legislation.

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MEASURE No. 10

• Add more aggressive provisions to the
  sustainability measures in the New Deal Grants
  program.
• Build capacity for rural self governance to
  reduce dependency.

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• THANK YOU
• FOR YOUR INVITATION
• Rural poverty is not about ideology.
• It is about ethics, national security,
  productivity and wellness.
• L. Peter Apedaile