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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • JANUARY 2017


BC farm leaders make Top 50 list


by DAVID SCHMIDT


VANCOUVER – Ladysmith dairyman Wally Smith is one of several BC agriculture


industry leaders included in the country’s top 50 lists for 2016. Smith, who is in his final year as chair of Dairy Farmers of Canada, is on Canadian Business Magazine’s list of Canada’s 50 Most Powerful People in 2016 as well as the Globe and Mail’s Food 53 List for 2016.


deal (if it ever comes about). While the Canadian Business list includes representatives from all sectors of Canadian business, the Globe and Mail list looks solely at people


involved in the food industry. The list includes food and alcohol


producers, grocers, food activists,


WALLY SMITH


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Mail notes Smith “has a big say in


Smith was listed as #46 on


BC Milk Marketing Board chair Ben Janzen, left, bids adieu to Garth Green who completed his term as an appointed BCMMB director at the board’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Deember 2. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO


the Canadian Business list. The magazine cites Smith for his work with DFC in “lobbying officials and MPs involved with agriculture and trade,” saying it is therefore “little wonder that supply management will largely remain in place” in the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade


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the dairy industry,” noting he is “committed to keeping dairy prices high through a quota system and keeping the industry as insulated as possible from the rest of the world via a tariff wall.” It says the fact all three major federal parties remain committed to preserving the supply management system is proof of his clout in Ottawa. Smith credits the rest of the DFC board and staff for the accolades, noting “you don’t make those lists on your own.”


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Other BC producers on the Food 53 list include BC Greenhouse Growers Association executive director Linda Delli Santi and Christine Coletta of Okanagan Crush Pad.


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The Globe and Mail calls Delli Santi “an astute lobbyist,” crediting her for earning a permanent carbon tax-relief grant from the provincial government for greenhouse growers. It notes she also chairs the Canadian Horticultural Council greenhouse committee and will therefore likely be lobbying for a national exemption from the federal Liberals’ proposed national carbon tax.


“Watch out, Ottawa. Here she comes,” the Globe and Mail warns. The Globe and Mail calls Coletta “a tireless champion of BC wine,” saying she “helped get BC wines on the map” and is making sure they stay there. It notes she followed up nine years as executive director for the BC Wine Institute with a successful career as a winery consultant. Five years ago, she founded Okanagan Crush Pad to produce not only her own wines but act as an industry incubator.


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