Supply-managed sectors must be protected

The unfortunate reality is that with pieces of our domestic market continually being carved off as bargaining chips in trade disputes, there may be little left of these once-thriving industries for the next generation of farmers.

In the case of the dairy sector, alone, recent trade deals signed by Canada: CETA, the CPTPP, and now NAFTA 2.0 (USMCA), have resulted in a combined 10 per cent loss of our domestic market, writes NDP MP Alistair MacGregor. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY NDP MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR

November 5, 2018

Supply management is a way for farmers, specifically, those who produce milk, chickens, turkeys, and eggs, to control, through a marketing system, the supply or quantity of their commercial products. It was set up in the 1970s to combat against wild price fluctuations that were hurting farmers, nota...

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