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wages in the country, the cost of living, social security benefits, and the relative living
standards of other social groups;”62
(d)
Accord status to those Aboriginal peoples unrecognized as such under
the Indian Act in order to enable all Aboriginal peoples to have access to land and
water rights to which they are entitled; encourage the federal, provincial and
territorial governments to meet, in good faith, with indigenous groups to discuss
arrangements to ensure access to land, natural resources, Nutrition North Canada
and the right to food, among others; accept the request of the Special Rapporteur on
the rights of indigenous peoples to undertake an official country visit;
(e)
In the organization of marketing for agricultural products, institute
limits on the allowable size of an operation established with provincial marketing
boards and place caps on the value of quotas, as done in Ontario, Québec and the
Maritime provinces; consider creative ways to de-capitalize the quotas in order to
ensure that supply management can also benefit farmers employing non-conventional
(organic) methods, such as establishing separate quotas for speciality products,
creating an exemption for direct marketing, or targeting speciality markets in
allocating processing; and favour the entry of new farmers;
(f)
Apply human rights criteria in reporting as per the 2008 ODA
Accountability Act, and human rights norms and standards in determining
international cooperation priorities and implementing programmes; take steps to
ensure that Canada’s international policies do not have a negative impact on the
realization of the right to food.
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ILO Convention No. 131 (1970), art. 3 (a).
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