Despite dairy concessions under USMCA, Trudeau Liberals’ ambitions in Quebec likely not in peril, strategists say

Opposition parties will exploit the issue, pundits say, but it could be defused long before 2019 vote. The feds have pledged to develop a compensation package to mitigate the dairy industry’s losses.

The top 10 ridings with the most dairy farms: 1. Conservative MP John Water; 2. Conservaive MP Bernard Généreux; 3. People's Party MP Maxime Bernier; 4. Conservative MP Alain Rayes; 5. Bloc MP Louis Plamondon; 6. Conservative MP Dave MacKenzie; 7. Conservative MP Luc Berthold; 8. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau; 9. Conservative MP Steven Blaney; and 10 Liberal MP Francis Drouin. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA, BEATRICE PAEZ

October 8, 2018

The Trudeau government’s decision to bow down to U.S. pressure to loosen restrictions on access to Canada's dairy industry is a cudgel for opposition parties, but strategists say there are limits to how far they can ride the wave of backlash from the industry.

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