Quebec milk farmers heading to Ottawa by tractor to protest lax rule enforcement
Milk farmers from all over Quebec began travelling to Ottawa by tractor on Monday in a protest aimed at getting the federal government to enforce existing rules governing supply management in their industry.
Ottawa to talk compensation with dairy farmers for Canada-EU trade deal
The federal government will meet Canadian dairy farmers within 30 days to discuss a compensation package designed to ease any pain caused by Canada signing the Canada-European Union trade deal.
Ottawa should reject TPP compensation for dairy, auto sectors: report
The federal government’s pledge to pay billions in compensation to farmers, auto companies and fish processors in the wake of recent free-trade deals is bad economic policy, a new report argues.
Watson: Time to stop milking consumers
Scrolling through some data the other day — it’s the sort of thing we economists do — I ran across a number that struck me. It was on the website of the Canadian Dairy Information Centre, in their historical statistics section. In 2013, the latest year listed, Canada produced 78.2 million hectolitres of milk.
Ottawa plans compensation for farmers to blunt impact of trade deal
The federal government is preparing a financial compensation package for Canadian dairy and poultry farmers as a way to blunt the impact of signing onto a massive Pacific Rim trade deal which could allow a surge of agricultural imports from other countries, sources said.