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Strategic Policy Branch
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The Strategic Policy Branch began as the Strategic Policy Coordination Unit within the Policy and Programs Branch of the Policy and Farm Finance Division. By 2002, it was a fully formed branch: the Strategic Policy Branch.
In 2017 or 2018, the Policy Coordination and Cabinet Liaison Unit was transferred to the Rural Policy Branch, leaving only the Socio-economic Analysis Unit and the Strategy, Intergovernmental Relations and Trade Unit to constitute the Strategic Policy Branch.
During the 2018-2019 fiscal year, a change of government resulted in some minor restructuring and re-naming within the Policy Division, including some changes to the units of the Strategic Policy Branch. The Policy Coordination Unit was placed under the Rural and Agri-Food Corporate Policy Branch, while the Intergovernmental Relations Unit and Trade Policy and Market Access Units formed part of the Intergovernmental and Trade Policy Branch.
By 2020, however, the three units appear to have been re-united under a restored Strategic Policy Branch. When the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs was divided into two ministries in 2024, the branch continued under the Policy Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness.
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The Strategic Policy Branch is responsible for leading the development of cross-ministry and cross-jurisdictional integrated strategies for OMAFRA (the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs). The branch leads, positions and coordinates the ministry's policy agenda with central agencies and other jurisdictions, both federally and provincially, while identifying strategic outcomes and major program alignment for federal-provincial agricultural and rural programming. The branch also has an international focus, leading the ministry's trade and market access policy development. In addition to internal and external policy coordination, Strategic Policy Branch leads OMAFRA's intergovernmental relations and coordinates regulatory modernization and Indigenous relations initiatives for the ministry.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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InfoGO (government directory) website https://www.infogo.gov.on.ca/
KWIC (keywords in context) indexes 2001-2006
Government of Ontario telephone directories 2001-2006
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Archivist(s):
Shimpo