The final slate of hopefuls hasn’t been determined but one contender for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership has already announced he would dismantle supply management. Rick Peterson, president of Peterson Capital in Edmonton, who also ran in the last leadership contest, issued a statement Feb. 28 saying there is “nothing Conservative about supply management.” […] Read more
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Feds new dairy compensation vow
Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau again committed to offering compensation to dairy farmers as a result of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The commitment was made during a speech at the Dairy Farmers of Canada annual policy conference held in Ottawa Feb. 4-6. Telling the audience that supply management is a “social contract” that needs protecting, […] Read more
Feds to compensate dairy sector
The federal government has announced it will make $1.75 billion available to Canada’s dairy farmers, compensating producers for losses in domestic market access due to new trade agreements. Unveiling the compensation package today in Compton, Que., agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said the dollars will be doled out over eight years to the country’s nearly 11,000 […] Read more
Compensation kept for supply management
Federal budget promises $3.9 billion to dairy, egg and poultry farmers, down from $4.3 billion previous government offered
The federal Liberals appear to have picked up where the previous Conservative government left off when it comes to compensating supply managed farmers for trade agreements. The March 19 federal budget promised $3.9 billion to dairy, egg and poultry farmers, four years after the Stephen Harper government offered $4.3 billion. Details on how the money […] Read more
Dairy sector vital to food sovereignty
If ultra-conservative politicians and pundits had their way, we’d all be cheesed off at Canada’s supply management system. They would have Canadians believe that milk in the Great White North is a rip-off, and the only way to “fix” our dairy supply system is to trade it in for something more akin to a model […] Read more
Trudeau fails to placate dairy farmers
OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week to discuss his politically risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry, but complained that he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, […] Read more
U.S. dairy says Canada not big USMCA loser
American farmers argue that the Canadian supply management sector didn’t give up as much as it should have
An American farmer who has operated dairies on both sides of the 49th parallel says the new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement is good and could have been better. “It was better than what we thought we would actually get,” Allan Huttema said about elements of the deal affecting U.S. dairy trade. […] Read more
Canada’s supply managed sectors must now avoid stagnation
Ed White’s series on lessons learned from the financial crisis of 10 years ago will resume next week. Now is the time to face up to the bad math that threatens to throttle the future of the Canadian dairy industry. In the aftermath of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, there is a lot of talk of […] Read more
Dairy farmers protest trade agreement
Dairy farmers were seething, but grain and meat producers were optimistic Monday after the announcement a North American trade deal had finally been reached. Dairy Farmers of Canada launched a Twitter campaign against the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland promised compensation. “A handful of […] Read more
Research teams disagree on cost of supply management
The United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone agreement with Mexico that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
Not only are they satisfied that Canadian dairy, eggs and poultry prices were higher than those in the U.S. in 2015, they believe they have shown they still are higher today. That’s the bottom-line response from a team of analysts from the University of Manitoba to criticism from a team of Laval university professors to […] Read more
