Supply management hurting major transpacific trade opportunity: Experts
Eight Asia-Pacific countries will meet in March to negotiate a trade agreement as Canada sits on the sideline. Published January 6, 2010 |
Even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper works to turn Canada's diplomatic and economic focus more towards Asia, the government may have missed out on a key chance to shape a new and expanding transpacific trade agreement. And experts say a major reason may have been Canada's ongoing insistence on protecting supply management.
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, or TPP, began as a...
