Their input was received through 33 cross-Canada facilitated Rural Dialogue sessions organized by the Rural Secretariat of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In addition, rural Canadians were invited to fill out a Rural Dialogue Workbook, in which individual citizens, families and groups responded to a series of six questions.

The Rural Dialogue session reports represent the views of 855 rural Canadians, approximately 13% of all the input the Rural Secretariat received from citizens throughout Canada from May until the end of July, 1998. The remaining 87% was received in the form of Rural Dialogue Workbook submissions.

All the opinions collected are summarized in a paper entitled Rural Canadians Speak Out, which was used as the basis for discussions at the National Rural Workshop, held October 2-4, 1998, in Belleville, Ontario.

DISCLAIMER

All Rural Dialogue session reports on this Canadian Rural Partnership (CRP) web site are included for information purposes only. The views expressed in the Rural Dialogue session reports have not been edited and are those of one or many rural Canadians who attended the Rural Dialogue sessions.

The views expressed in the Rural Dialogue session reports do not necessarily represent the views of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada or any other department or agency of the Government of Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada does not make any warranties, expressed or implied, as to the content and/or use of the Rural Dialogue session reports.

Rural Dialogue Sessions
May - July 1998

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