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Asia trade deal signed, ratification next hurdle

Parliament must now approve the pact as the next step towards implementation

By Alex Binkley March 15, 2018

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed but it still faces a long road toward implementation. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne hedged when asked how quickly the government will move to achieve parliamentary ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Speaking to reporters after signing the deal in Santiago, Chile, he

Dairy cattle, Opinion, Poultry

Supply management protects few, could harm more

By Danny Leroy, Jason Clemens March 14, 2018

Why are broad trade agreements that benefit almost all Canadians being jeopardized to protect a small subset of farmers, estimated at just 13,500 across Canada? The United States has repeatedly indicated that a key tension in North American Free Trade (NAFTA) renegotiations is Canada’s protection of dairy, poultry and egg producers. These protectionist policies were

Canada’s top trade negotiator Steve Verheul says the U.S. is playing winner-takes-all in NAFTA talks.

News, Other

Canada, U.S. exchange barbs over NAFTA talks as stresses rise

Canada says the U.S. seeks only to weaken its partners during the challenging renegotiation

By David Ljunggren February 23, 2018

Canada and the United States exchanged barbs Feb. 13 over sluggish negotiations to update NAFTA, reflecting mounting tensions over trade talks that appear unlikely to conclude on schedule. The talks have effectively stalled as Canada and Mexico seek to address wide-ranging U.S. demands for changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The early-March deadline

Opinion, Other

Opinion: America alone

By Alan Guebert February 23, 2018

Softly falling snow makes it evident that winter’s early end was just a rumour. The season is back and will remain awhile, predicts the National Weather Service. Frozen, also, are the immigration standoff, NAFTA talks, infrastructure plans, the dicamba debate… Congress is moving as slow as molasses, too, as seen in the recent budget shutdown.

Dairy, egg and poultry producers are all concerned about the effect the new TPP deal will have on their sector.

Dairy cattle, News, Poultry

TAKEN BY SURPRISE: TPP II hits supply management with no warning

When combined with earlier trade deals, 10 per cent of the dairy and poultry will potentially be in foreign hands

By Alex Binkley February 13, 2018

The supply-managed sector learned the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), as the updated TPP trade deal is now known, would be proceeding at the same time the rest of the country did. That’s despite regular meetings with cabinet members and government officials to express concerns about provisions in it. The sector is now awaiting

Manitoba’s Minister of Agriculture Ralph Eichler, speaks to reporters at Keystone Agricultural Producers annual general meeting in Winnipeg.

Livestock, News

U.S. won’t recapture TPP opportunity in coming years

Canada’s beef and pork producers are poised to benefit from the resurrected Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Shannon VanRaes February 5, 2018

Canada’s entry into a resurrected Trans-Pacific Partnership bodes well for the province and for the country, say those in the know. Speaking at Keystone Agricultural Producers annual general meeting in Winnipeg last week, Manitoba’s Minister of Agriculture Ralph Eichler, said the pork industry will be the biggest winner under the new deal, which was rechristened

Lawrence MacAulay, the federal agriculture minister, recently spoke to U.S. farm groups in support of NAFTA.

News

MacAulay takes case for NAFTA to U.S. farmers

He’s the first Canadian minister to speak to the nearly  100-year-old organization

By Allan Dawson January 11, 2018

Lawrence MacAulay’s speech in support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was well received by an estimated 5,000 people attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee Jan. 7. The bureau, the United States’ largest farm organization, also supports NAFTA. “My message to you this morning is the Government of

Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator, says the elements for a deal on agriculture through NAFTA are there without scrapping supply management.

News

NAFTA ag deal while keeping supply management possible

Mike Gifford says the negotiations are unique because agriculture doesn’t top the agenda

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2017

An agreement on agricultural trade under a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is possible without gutting dairy supply management, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. The United States is Canadian agriculture’s biggest customer generating more than $50 billion in annual revenues. Terminating NAFTA, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to

Closeup of the flags of the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA members on textile texture. NAFTA is the world's largest trade bloc and the member countries are Canada, United States and Mexico.

Comment/Feedback, Opinion, Other

NAFTA’s potential end is Canada’s greatly needed wake-up call

Now more than ever the nation must expand its portfolio of allies and partners and take a strategic approach to trade 

By Sylvain Charlebois October 31, 2017

Despite Canada’s optimism, NAFTA talks seem to be heading nowhere. Wanting to push back on Mexico’s influence over the American economy, Washington now is indicating that the bilateral option with Canada is more appealing. In Trump’s playbook, multilateral deals are highly complex and can only benefit smaller markets to a greater degree. Bilateral deals are

The U.S. continues to put pressure on Canada regarding supply management, particularly around the country’s dairy industry.

Dairy cattle, News

Ritz optimistic for TPP

Canada says it has put offers on the TPP table, while the U.S. continues to disagree

By Shannon VanRaes July 30, 2015

Canada’s agriculture minister says Canada won’t negotiate in public when it comes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposed wide-ranging free trade agreement among a group of Pacific Rim countries. Responding to questions at an unrelated event in Winnipeg last week, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Gerry Ritz said Canada has put forward strong proposals regarding

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Canadian alpacas impress American judge at Agribition

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm as traders gauge China purchases

U.S. livestock: Futures rally ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving

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