Elected Executive
The current President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is Ron Bonnett. Bonnett had previously been the vice president of the CFA and, before that, the president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. The current First Vice President is Christian Lacasse of the Quebec-based UPA, and the Second Vice President is Humphrey Bannack of the Alberta-based Wild Rose Agriculture Producers (WRAP). Previously, delegates at the 2009 Annual General Meeting elected Laurent Pellerin as the President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. The organization had been without a President since September, 2008, when Bob Friesen stepped down in order to participate in national politics. Friesen had been the Canadian Federation of Agriculture's president for over nine years.
Laurent Pellerin had previously served as President of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) as well as serving as 1st Vice-President of the CFA for over a decade. Pellerin, a hog and beef producer from Saint-Gregoire de Nicolet, Quebec, was the first québécois head of the organization in its 74-year history.
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