Legislation

The supply management system rests on the following four pillars:

1. the provincial and territorial legislations governing commodity and supervisory boards;
2. the federal legislations controlling interprovincial and international trade of farm products;
3. the FPAA enables producer groups to set up national marketing agencies. It also provides the legal foundation for the creation of the FPCC, whose mission is to supervise these agencies; and,
4. the federal proclamations to establish each of the national marketing agencies. These agencies are:

• Chicken Farmers of Canada,
• Egg Farmers of Canada,
• Turkey Farmers of Canada, and
• Canadian Hatching Egg Producers.

Federal, provincial and territorial agreements provide the details for operating the system by setting out how each national marketing agency must operate.