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Cate Laskey

Cate Laskey

Co-founder of the World Food Forum Quebec Chapter and McGill University economics and history student, involved in the McGill Youth Advisory Delegation (MYAD).

Sep 6, 2026

9:11
So I guess I want to talk a little bit more about the Quebec specific because we did talk about agri-food and maybe someone who's like in BC is not really familiar with What does agri-food look like in Quebec? Is it primarily like, are you focusing on aquatics? Are you focusing on farmland? Are you focusing on manufacturing? Maybe we could talk a little bit more about just like painting a picture about what agri-food looks like, at least in the Quebec side.
9:38
Sure.
9:38
So it's definitely a great question and probably the first question on everyone's minds when you're first forming one of these chapters.
9:48
We pretty much I suppose like the process we went through is, you know, We engage in consultations with community members to sort of identify areas like priority areas and areas of concern.
10:02
And as you said, just kind of understand the Quebec context better.
10:06
That way we can develop actual objectives and goals and sort of focuses aimed at these exact concerns grounded in actual reality.
10:16
And then we, of course, move on to implementing those objectives.

30 MINS LATER

40:33
So maybe you could just provide an example just to give us some context.
9:22
Is it primarily, like, are you focusing on aquatics? Are you focusing on farmland? Are you focusing on manufacturing? Maybe we could talk a little bit more about just, um, like painting a picture about what agri-food looks like, at least in the Quebec side.
9:38
Sure.
9:38
So it's definitely a great question, um, and probably the first question on everyone's minds when you're first forming one of these chapters.
9:47
Um, we pretty much-- I, I suppose, like, the process we went through, um, is, you know, we engage in consultations with community members to sort of identify areas, like priority areas and areas con- of concern, and as you said, just kind of understand the Quebec context better.
10:06
That way we can develop actual objectives and goals and sort of focuses aimed at these exact concerns grounded in, like, actual reality.
10:16
Um, and then we, of course, move on to implementing, um, those objectives.
10:20
So I think to answer your question, we sort of approach it more systematically, um, like look at the whole agri-food system as a whole, as opposed to looking at, you know, different sectors individually, and that's, of course, goes back to what Laia mentioned about breaking those silos of action between different, um, different systems, I suppose.

30 MINS LATER

40:24
When has youth involvement actually helped change something in a positive manner to show that their voices were represented, uh, and it also has benefited their community? So maybe you could just provide a example just to give us some context.

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