Agriculture meeting emphasizes Canadian, U.S. partnership

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Lets not cloud things here . We have the Conservatives and Ritz to thank for having the backbone to hold firm on getting the US to repeal COOL .

After almost 8 years of COOL and millions lost by the Beef and Pork Industries.We could of initiated tariffs on US goods years ago but Ritz waited till just before an upcoming election to do it...some backbone!

If you were paying attention to how the "system" works you would realize that tariffs could not have been put in place until this had gone through the process. The US dragged it on as long as they could and I also thank the previous government for the help they gave us...the election had absolutely nothing to do with the repeal of COOL.

The only process l saw was Canadian beef and pork industries getting the shaft over a period of almost 8 years and losses of 100's of millions of dollars and then mere months before a federal election a lot of huffing and puffing about billion dollars worth of tariffs being tagged on the US...of course,predictably it never came about.

I ask, if it was the other way around (and there have been many)you think Canada would have been able to drag our feet for almost 8 years without some sort of US retaliation almost immediately?

Just like livestock producers to still cry and whine with record high prices . You are too used getting money every time you let out a peep under Justine's old man and every Liberal since . Not going to happen this time .
Truth is Canadian beef and pork is subsidized and then dumped in the USA .

There were times in those almost 8 years of COOL that beef prices especially were not high,in fact one of the reasons that Ontario beef numbers are so low these days are because of the low prices of past years,so many producers have exited the industry.
As much as we would like to at times,we can't separate politics and agriculture.The Conservatives brought in both CETA and TPP as election goodies,mere weeks before voters went to the polls,in the case of the TPP it was days! The same can be said of COOL,just months before an federal election it all goes away miracleously...after 8 years of wrangling.
Any subsidies received by Canadian beef and pork never came close to the millions (perhaps billions)lost in a illegal border closing for those two industries.However the conservatives disappearing threat of tariffs against the US was l guess somehow going to make up for those millions lost....ppfff!

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