Sentences with phrase «canadian dairy supply»
Canada is «totally committed» to supply management, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said last year, and Ottawa has given no indication that it is willing to change a system that, by design, protects the entire Canadian dairy supply chain from competition and dings consumers with some of the highest dairy prices in the world.
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Make that cheesecake, because there is still strong support for Canada's supply management system for dairy and poultry producers despite Canadians» equally strong belief in the importance of joining the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade talks.
Farmers operating under supply - management boards in the Canadian dairy, chicken and other protected agricultural sectors can be expected to offer justifications for the market power that enables them to sell their wares at prices substantially higher than in most other countries.
On Maxime Bernier's proposal to get rid of supply management for Canadian dairy, poultry and egg farmers, Lisa Raitt says making that vow before it comes up during international trade talks amounts to «offering [farmers] up on a silver platter.»
We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the jobs they could be creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management; d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.
The World Trade Organization has deemed Canada's supply management system a subsidy, which means Canadian dairy farmers can't access global markets.
Canadian Business also touched on issues of supply chain management of Canadian dairy and poultry products, a prominent issue in the Canadian media coverage of TPP.
The same could apply to trade, an area where a long - sought - after agreement with the European Union has eluded Canadian negotiators, primarily because of a supply - management system that protects dairy farmers in Quebec.
Furthermore, for 67 per cent of Canadians, it is important for the government to protect our supply management system for dairy and poultry products.
A key reason for Canada to dismantle supply management is to allow Canadian dairy to compete — with the Americans — for global markets.
Canadian dairy group Agropur has snapped up own - label and ingredients supplier M. Larivée International.
There are other reasons to boycott Nestlé, such as concern over its exploitation of water resources (see Council of Canadians boycott call), treatment of dairy and coffee farmers, accusations of child slavery and labour in its cocoa supply chain and other issues (see report to the UN Global Compact office, 2009).
But it won't require Canada to dismantle its protectionist supply management system that keeps out U.S. dairy products to the detriment of Canadian consumers.