{"id":139526,"date":"2023-02-26T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=139526"},"modified":"2023-02-26T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:10:54","slug":"bc-minister-urges-farmers-still-waiting-for-compensation-for-the-2021-floods-to-please-be-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/bc-minister-urges-farmers-still-waiting-for-compensation-for-the-2021-floods-to-please-be-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"BC minister urges farmers still waiting for compensation for the 2021 floods to &#8216;please be patient&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Most of the farmers affected by the Fraser Valley flooding in November 2021 have received some or all of the compensation from the provincial government, according to Pam Alexis, Minister of Agriculture and Food. Some complex cases have slowed some application processes down, but the ministry is committed to working and helping the Fraser Valley through the complications, she adds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe applications that have not received compensation are likely to have another visit by the ministry to gather information to make sure that compensation is possible,\u201d Alexis says, adding that the federal government has been committed since the beginning of the flood recovery.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/governments\/organizational-structure\/ministries-organizations\/ministries\/emergency-management-and-climate-readiness\">Minister of Management and Climate Readiness Bowinn Ma,<\/a> alongside Alexis,\u00a0 is currently working on the list of priority infrastructure projects submitted by the City of Abbotsford to protect the community and the farmlands that need to be protected.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere is a federal and provincial committee that\u2019s looking at this, and has done right since the very beginning,\u201d Alexis said. \u201cI expect there will be some news shortly on what is going to be tackled first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alexis urges farmers to continue to grow and take the proper support to protect their farms and to reach out to the ministry on how to protect their crops. Her mandate from the premier has been clear on growing BC\u2019s local food production, and the ministry is looking for new ways to increase support for farmers to produce and safely produce during climate change.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Listen to the Pam Alexis\u2019 first radio interview with CIVL here:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the farmers affected by the Fraser Valley flooding in November 2021 have received some or all of the compensation from the provincial government, according to Pam Alexis, Minister of Agriculture and Food. Some complex cases have slowed some application processes down, but the ministry is committed to working and helping the Fraser Valley&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":139528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[23180,3233,15247,23178,23179],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141760,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139526\/revisions\/141760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139526"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=139526"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=139526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}