The federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture met last month to discuss and agree on the key priorities of the next Agricultural Policy Framework (APF), now being called the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, set to replace Growing Forward 2 in April of 2018. With its guiding vision of “Innovate, Grow, Prosper”, the framework unfortunately appears to be following the same path as previous policy frameworks, founded in an export-oriented growth imperative that assumes when it comes to the future of Canadian agriculture, bigger is necessarily better.