on June 26, 2015 in World News
Ottawa plans compensation for farmers to blunt impact of trade deal
Ottawa plans compensation for farmers to blunt impact of trade deal STEVEN CHASE and DANIEL LEBLANC The federal government is preparing a financial compensation package for Canadian dairy and poultry farmers as a way to blunt the impact of signing onto a massive Pacific Rim trade deal which could allow a surge of agricultural imports from other countries, sources said. Details are still being worked out – and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has yet to be concluded – but the model used when Canada recently clinched a trade deal with the European Union was to offer cash to cushion the… View Article
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