Farmers reeling from the unintended consequences of new Liberal policies

One wonders how the government will ever reach its goal to increase agri-food exports to $75-billion—in just eight years—given the amount of obstacles it is putting in producers’ way.
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, pictured in Centre Block in this file photo leaving a cabinet meeting with Science Minister Kirsty Duncan.
Selfies, symbolic appointments, and carefully crafted PR can only buoy a government for so long before its ship begins to sink under the weight of so many broken promises. And as the Liberals’ disappointments and deceptions keep piling up, Canadians are rapidly waking up to the fact they elected a...

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