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Harvesting prosperity from seven years of negotiation

By Brian Innes November 30, 2016

Threats to rip up NAFTA and trash the TPP send a chill down the spines of Canadians whose livelihoods depend on trade. While the Trump administration’s action plan is not yet clear, it is crystal clear that Canada’s past and future depend on trade. Throughout history with a small population and huge resources, Canada has

President-elect Donald Trump won a surprise victory Nov. 8, partly on promises to tear up trade deals like NAFTA.

News

Trump’s triumph turns to ag trade trepidation

The U.S. president-elect has threatened to tear up the $1-trillion-a-year  North American Free Trade Agreement and says he won’t ratify the  Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Allan Dawson November 17, 2016

Canada’s trade-dependent economy, including agriculture, could be collateral damage in Donald Trump’s battle to make America great again. The president-elect says he’ll pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if it can’t be renegotiated to give the U.S. a better deal. He also says he won’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Withering trade

By Laura Rance-Unger November 3, 2016

Former senior U.S. trade negotiator Joe Glauber could see the “Stop CETA” banner draped from a Brussels overpass as he travelled through the EU city on his way to Winnipeg to deliver the 8th annual Daryl F. Kraft lecture late last month. Within days, that is exactly what happened as Wallonia, a tiny regional government

Dairy cattle, Livestock

NAFTA negotiators see gains for Canada if pact reopened

By GFM Network News October 4, 2016

Reuters — Canada, fearful of talk by the U.S. presidential candidates to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement, could use the opportunity to push for a better deal on worker mobility, dispute resolutions and other issues, Canadian negotiators of the original pact said. Republican Donald Trump calls NAFTA the worst trade deal signed by

“What sticks in my craw the most is the fact that
we are letting Canada off the hook (with supply management).” – Colin Peterson

Dairy cattle, News

Minnesota congressman critical of Canada’s supply management system

Colin Peterson suspects Canadians are using windfall profits from supply management to buy up American dairy processors

By Allan Dawson May 9, 2016

Canada’s supply management sector knows it’s on the American government’s hit list. Veteran Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson reaffirmed that here April 26 while speaking to members of North American Agricultural Journalists. “What sticks in my craw the most is the fact that we are letting Canada off the hook (with supply management),” Peterson said when

Dairy cattle

Supply management compensation plan rumours dismissed by Ritz

News reports suggest the federal government may yield to outside pressure  to grant increased access to Canadian markets

By Alex Binkley July 13, 2015

A front page Globe and Mail article claiming the federal government is planning a compensation scheme for supply management farmers “is pure speculation,” says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The newspaper said the compensation would be intended to blunt the impact on supply management from Canada joining the Trans-Pacific Pact. Speculation about a TPP deal this

Comment, Opinion

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a good deal for Canada?

The economic logic behind free trade is that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’

By Robert McGarvey May 19, 2015

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a bulwark of freedom as proponents claim, or is Canada about to be shoehorned into another free trade deal that will continue the hollowing out of our economy? It depends on your perspective. The TPP, championed by U.S. President Barack Obama as an important addition to the world’s free trade zone

Opinion

Editorial: More to TPP than milk and eggs

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and what a deal could mean for Canadian producers

By John Morriss May 18, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement now under negotiation involves 12 of the world’s largest economies, and has been described as “NAFTA on steroids.” What’s holding it up? Canadian dairy farmers. Or so you’d think about reading some of the national and international media coverage. Some of it made us think of the coverage of

Livestock, Opinion

Guebert: Why don’t farmers trust consumers?

By Alan Guebert November 14, 2013

Henry Ford heard the jeers for years before his horseless carriage remade culture forever. Orville and Wilbur Wright were called birdbrains before their dreams carried them over a North Carolina sand dune and mankind to distant galaxies. They had thousands of predecessors. Archimedes was thought to have a screw loose. The Vatican saw Galileo as

Hogs, Livestock, News

Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

As a posse of Harper cabinet ministers and MPs fanned out across the country to round up support for a free trade deal with Europe (CETA), several farm groups offered carefully worded backing for more trans-Atlantic trade. However, as the details of the trade deal are still being negotiated, the groups carefully stuck to the

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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