‘Don’t fix something, that isn’t broken:’ AG Minister MacAulay defends supply management amid NAFTA talks

'I’ve indicated quite clearly, it’s a non-starter. It’s simply how it is. A deal has to be good for all, and it has been good for North America in general and that’s fair game,' Lawrence MacAulay says of U.S. proposal in NAFTA negotiations to wind down supply management.
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, left, tours the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo Canada Pavilion in 2016 with Chinese Vice-Minister Yu Kangzhe, forefront, and promotes Atlantic lobster.
The long-winding renegotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement have many trade-dependent industries in Canada on edge. At first, talk was that the negotiations would amount to nothing more than mere tweaks to the decades-old pact that lifts most tariffs on commerce flowing between the th...

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