Video Transcript
[Uplifting, rhythmic music starts.]
[Video opens on a white screen, small colourful triangles spiral around the screen.]
[Cut to close up clip of man and woman carrying a crate of corn through a field.]
Marie-Claude Bibeau: They feed us.
[Cut to clip of workers packaging peppers in a processing facility.]
They employ us.
[Cut to clip of greenhouses lit up at dawn.]
Our farmers work at all hours…
[Cut to close-up clip of woman sorting blueberries into baskets to sell at a fruit stand.]
…to put high quality food on our tables…
[Cut to clip of customer buying a container of blueberries from fruit stand.]
…each and every day.
[Cut to clip of young boy drinking a glass of milk at the dinner table.]
[Cut to The Honourable Marie Claude Bibeau in a greenhouse being interviewed. A white banner fades onto the screen with text.]
Text on screen: The Honourable Marie Claude Bibeau. Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.]
One in eight working Canadians is in the agriculture sector…
[Cut to clip of employee at a cheese factory placing cheese wheels in a cleaning machine.]
…with over 200,000 farms across the country…
[Cut to aerial clip of farmland.]
…and countless small and medium-sized businesses.
[Cut to clip of employee bottling and labelling maple syrup.]
Agriculture is at the heart of our communities.
[Cut to clip of customer speaking to a vendor at a farmers market about carrots. A mother and daughter preparing their dinner table. A family apple picking.]
It’s key to our rural vitality.
[Cut to clip of ranchers herding their cows on rolling hills.]
On Canada’s Agriculture Day…
[Cut to clip of workers harvesting rice on a boat.]
…we celebrate our farmers and food producers.
[Cut to clip of a beekeeper examining his colony. A farmer covering a truck of seeds with a tarp.]
Canadians can be so proud…
[Cut to clip of two scientists in a lab examining carrots for research.]
…of the amazing men and the women across the country…
[Cut to a clip of farm workers inspecting plants in a field.]
…who have stories of resilience…
[Cut to a clip of a farmer sweeping aphids off his wheat crop with a net.]
…and innovation.
[Cut to a clip of farmers harvesting cranberries from a pond. A female researcher examining a sample under a magnifying glass in a lab. A male researcher placing droplets into a sample tray in a lab.]
Our farmers work hard.
[Cut to a clip of farm workers harvesting lettuce.]
They take care of their animals…
[Cut to a clip of a female farmer petting a cow.]
…their crops, and our environment.
[Cut to a clip of a farmer sorting through tea leaves in a bin.]
This is their legacy to their children.
[Cut to a clip of a farmer and his young son sweeping a barn.]
They are an endless source of inspiration…
[Cut back to Minister Marie Claude Bibeau.]
…and I want to tell them “thank you.”
[Cut to montage of images of Minister Bibeau with Canadian farmers and other workers in the agricultural sector.]
I want to say we have your back, and I look forward to working with you.
[Cut to a clip of Minister Bibeau speaking with a researcher in a greenhouse.]
I see a bright future for the agricultural sector in Canada.
[Cut back to Minister Marie Claude Bibeau.]
Happy Canada’s Agriculture Day.
[Screen fades to white, small colourful triangles spiral around the screen then burst and turn into test with a maple leaf illustration.]
Text on screen: Let's celebrate Canada's Agriculture Day!
[Music fades out. Fade to the Canada wordmark.]
Text on screen: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (2020)