If you are a producer or industry needing a hotel room, please book your room via this link: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1659629364266&key=GRP

If you are a delegate needing a hotel room, please email olga.klashtorny@ontariopork.on.ca

*A reminder that Delegates must check in on both days.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Registration*

1:00 p.m. Opening Session of Annual General Meeting

• Session Chair: John de Bruyn

1:15 p.m. North American Pork Market: Economic Drivers and Analysis

• Steve Meyer, Kerns and Associates, Iowa

2:00 p.m. Workforce Trends: Inter-Generational Differences and Their Impacts on Workplace Dynamics

• Sean Lyons, Professor, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics

2:45 p.m. Nutritional Break

3:00 p.m. Government of Canada’s Trade Agenda

• Axel Ndayisaba, Director of the Trade Negotiations Division, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

3:45 p.m. Consumer Trends

• John Cranfield, Professor, University of Guelph

4:30 p.m. Reception

6:30 p.m. Dinner Banquet and Awards

Entertainment

• Freddy Proia, Stand-Up Comedian

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

7:45 a.m. Breakfast and Registration*

8:45 a.m. Honourable Lisa Thompson

• Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

9:00 a.m. Call to Order – Business Meeting

• Opening Remarks – John de Bruyn
• Financial Report – Jim Weir
• Auditor’s Report – RLB LLP

9:35 a.m. Operations Report

• Ken Ovington – General Manager
• Stacey Ash - Communications/Consumer Marketing

10:00 a.m. Questions and Answers

10:15 a.m. Advocacy for Agriculture – Speaking to the Government

• John Milloy, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

11:00 a.m. Nutritional Break

11:15 a.m. Canadian Pork Council Update

• René Roy

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Resolutions

2:30 p.m. Wrap-up Session and Closing Remarks

• John de Bruyn

*Delegates must check in on both days.