Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness

Template:Independent sourcesTemplate:Infobox government agency The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness is a ministry of the Government of Ontario responsible for the food, agriculture and agribusiness sectors of the Canadian province of Ontario.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Minister responsible is Trevor Jones.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Foodland Ontario

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}}Foodland Ontario was founded in 1977 as a consumer promotion program for the agricultural products in Ontario. Foodland Ontario is administrated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Agribusiness.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Foodland Ontario's mandate states their goal is to "spread the word about the great taste, nutrition and economic benefits of buying Ontario food to all people in Ontario".<ref name=":0" />

According to the Ministry, Foodland Ontario commercials such as the "Good things grow in Ontario" campaign reach more than 90% of the target audience including television, radio, billboard and print media campaigns. Food retailers such as grocery stores and farmer's markets display the logo to promote Ontario foods and capture niche markets for products such as health food. In 2011-12, over 700,000 copies of Foodland calendars and 250,000 copies of two Foodland cookbooks were distributed across the province.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ministry agencies

The Ministry is responsible for the following agencies, boards and commissions:<ref name=":1" />

• Agricorp
• Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario
• Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal
• Business Risk Management Review Committee
• Grain Financial Protection Board
• Livestock Financial Protection Board
• Livestock Medicines Advisory Committee
• Normal Farm Practices Protection Board
• Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission
• Ontario Food Terminal Board

Organization history

Template:More citations Prior to confederation, the Bureau of Agriculture of the Province of Canada was responsible for collecting facts and statistics relating to the agricultural, mechanical and manufacturing interests.

Under the terms of the British North America Act 1867, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario was empowered to appoint, as one of the executive officers of the government, a Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works.

On March 4, 1868, the Act for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Horticulture, Arts, and Manufactures received royal assent, establishing the Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works.<ref>Template:Cite book, S.O. 1868 (31 Vic), c. 29</ref> The Commissioner was referred to simply as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts when dealing with matters relating to arts and agriculture, and as the Commissioner of Public Works, when dealing with matters relating to public works. However, a separate Department of Public Works was established in 1869, taking over the public works functions. However, one individual continued to be commissioner for both portfolios until 1874.

The agricultural and arts functions of the department were carried out by the Commissioner through the Bureau of Agriculture and Arts.Template:Sfn "Arts", at the time, referred to the practical application of an industrial, manufacturing, or scientific pursuit, rather than to its current meaning. Additionally, a variety of both agricultural and arts-related agencies were required to report to the commissioner, and to provide statistical information to the bureau. The department also had responsibility over immigration between 1869 and 1874. In 1874, a separate Commissioner for the Department of Public Works was created.

In 1877, the Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts was formally established.<ref>Template:Cite book, S.O. 1877 (40 Vic), c. 17</ref> The Commissioner acted as head of the Bureau of Agriculture and Arts from 1877 until 1882, as well as the Bureau of Industries, which replaced the Bureau of Agriculture and Arts, from 1882 until 1888.

In 1880, the "arts" related responsibilities of the Commissioner, and the bureau, were transferred to the Department of Education. The name of the department, however, remained the Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts until 1888.

In 1888, the department was renamed the Department of Agriculture. With this change, the head of the department was renamed to the Minister of Agriculture, with cabinet standing.<ref>Template:Cite book, S.O. 1888 (51 Vic), c. 8</ref>Template:Sfn Prior to the First World War, the department were responsible for a wide range of functions including the Office of the Registrar General (until 1891); the Clerk of Forestry (until 1895); the Inspector of Factories (until 1915); the Inspector of Mines (until 1891); and the Provincial Inspector in Road-making (until 1900). After the First World War, the department's function became increasingly more focused in the regulation and promotion of agricultural activities. The department was briefly responsible for telephone services between 1960 and 1971.

In 1966, the department was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Food. By this time, rural development has emerged distinctly as an area of focus. With the reorganization of the government in 1972, the department was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. In 1994, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

List of ministers

	Name	Term of office	Tenure	Political party (Ministry)	Note
	Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works				rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Liberal Conservative (MacDonald)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	John Carling	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Carling later served as federal Minister of Agriculture between 1885 and 1891 under Prime Ministers Macdonald and Abbott.
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Archibald McKellar	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Blake)
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	rowspan=9; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Mowat)
	Commissioner of Agriculture
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Archibald McKellar	Template:Dts	Template:Dts		Concurrently Provincial Secretary and Registrar (April 4, 1874 – July 23, 1875)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Samuel Casey Wood	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Concurrently Provincial Secretary and Registrar (July 23, 1875 – March 19, 1877), Treasurer (March 19, 1877 – June 2, 1883)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	James Young	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Concurrently Treasurer
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Alexander McLagan Ross	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Concurrently Treasurer
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Charles Alfred Drury	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Styled as Minister of Agriculture with cabinet status
	Minister of Agriculture
rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	John Dryden	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Hardy)
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Ross)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Samuel Nelson Monteith	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative (Whitney)
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	James Stoddart Duff	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative (Hearst)		Died in office
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	William Hearst	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Concurrently Premier
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	George Stewart Henry	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Manning Doherty	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|United Farmers (Drury)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	John Strickler Martin	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative (Ferguson)
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd (first instance)
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Conservative (Henry)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Duncan Marshall	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Hepburn)
rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Patrick Michael Dewan	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Conant)
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Nixon)
rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Thomas Laird Kennedy	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd (second instance) 13 years, 88 days in total	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC (Drew)
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC (Kennedy)		Concurrently Premier
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC (Frost)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Fletcher Stewart Thomas	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	William Arthur Goodfellow	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	William Atcheson Stewart	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=3; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC (Robarts)
	Minister of Agriculture and Food
rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	William Atcheson Stewart	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
Template:Dts		Template:Dts	rowspan=4; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC (Davis)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Bill Newman	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Lorne Henderson	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Dennis Timbrell	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Philip Andrewes	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| PC (Miller)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	K. Ross Stevenson	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Jack Riddell	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=2; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|Liberal (Peterson)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	David Ramsay	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Elmer Buchanan	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=3 ; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|NDP (Rae)
	Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Elmer Buchanan	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Noble Villeneuve	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=3 ; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC (Harris)	Concurrently Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Ernie Hardeman	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd (first instance)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Brian Coburn	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Helen Johns	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|PC (Eves)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Steve Peters	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	rowspan=4; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (McGuinty)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Leona Dombrowsky	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Carol Mitchell	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Ted McMeekin	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
	Minister of Agriculture and Food				rowspan=4; style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"| Liberal (Wynne)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Kathleen Wynne	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Concurrently Premier. Jeff Leal is Minister of Rural Affairs for this period.
	Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Jeff Leal	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Total tenure Template:Ayd including time as Minister of Rural Affairs.
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Ernie Hardeman	Template:Dts	June 17, 2021	Template:Ayd (second instance)	style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"rowspan=5|PC (Ford)
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Lisa Thompson	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
	Minister of Agriculture, Food and AgribusinessTemplate:Efn
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Rob Flack	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
style="background:Template:Canadian party colour;"|	Trevor Jones	Template:Dts	Incumbent	Template:Ayd

References

Further reading

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External links

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