Don’t blame supply management on U.S. dairy’s woes

Critics of supply management forget that other countries include costly taxpayer subsidies to dairy farmers instead, writes David Crane.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was honoured with the Diplomat of the Year Award by Foreign Policy magazine earlier this week. Ms. Freeland says that NAFTA talks will continue over the summer.

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 15, 2018

As a childish, bullying, narcissistic, and hugely ill-informed U.S. president insults our own prime minister as “weak and dishonest," we should not feel pressured to do what he wants–which is to use NAFTA negotiations to dismantle our supply management system for d...

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