Farmer, financial planner named to Farm Credit board

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Published: February 4, 2008

A mixed farmer from Quebec and an Ontario farm financial planner are the newest appointees to the board of Farm Credit Canada.

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Monday named Caroline Belzile of Saint-Elzéar, Que., to a three-year term effective immediately. Belzile has co-owned a beef, hog and grain farm and sugar bush in the area, north of Quebec City, since 2002.

Before then, she worked as an insurance advisor for the Régie des assurances du Québec, advising local beef, grain, hog and sheep farmers in the Rimouski and Beauce regions, and for the Syndicat de gestion de La Pocatière as an accounting technician for farmers.

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Belzile’s farming awards include the Fédération des producteurs de porcs du Québec’s “Environnement et bon voisinage” award in 2006 and the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail’s “Prix innovation en santé et securité du travail,” also in 2006. She was also named “Agricultrice de passion” at the Saturne gala of the Fédération des Agricultrices du Québec in 2005

Ritz also named Gilles Lapointe of Casselman, Ont., southeast of Ottawa, to a three-year term on the board of the federal farm lending agency starting March 11.

Lapointe, a CGA and financial planner, has worked for BDO Dunwoody since 1977, and is now an associate at its office at nearby Embrun. His clients have included farming businesses, co-operatives, caisses populaires and small- to medium-size enterprises, Ritz’s office said in a release Monday.

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