A balancing act between free trade and supply management politics
Canada's policies keep some farmers profitable, but could threaten export opportunities for other agricultural sectors. Published October 14, 2009 |
As negotiators prepare to begin talks with the European Union on the biggest economic agreement Canada has undertaken in decades, the government has already taken a big bargaining chip off the table. The message seems clear: supply management is not up for debate.
Only a handful of Canadian agriculture sectors—dairy, eggs and egg-hatching, chicken and turkey—are supply managed. Supply management...
