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Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

Oct. 5, 2015 at 12:53 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific […]

Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

Oct. 5, 2015 at 9:04 am CDT

By David Ljunggren

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

Sep. 30, 2015 at 7:15 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

Supply management the hot button at ag debate

Sep. 30, 2015 at 3:53 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Farmers, upset over TPP talks, take cows to Parliament

Sep. 29, 2015 at 4:32 pm CDT

By David Ljunggren

Dairy farmers milk politics of Pacific trade pact

Aug. 10, 2015 at 6:26 pm CDT

Reuters — New Zealand dairy farmers have a message for their Canadian counterparts, who worry a Pacific trade deal will throw them on the mercy of world markets and devastate their industry: It’s not so bad. But heavily protected Canadian farmers have reason for skepticism. A deadlock over dairy has […]

By Allison Lampert Krista Hughes Rod Nickel

Canada will not negotiate TPP in public: Ritz

Jul. 23, 2015 at 3:13 pm CDT

Canada’s agriculture minister says Canada won’t negotiate in public when it comes to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the proposed wide-ranging free trade agreement among a group of Pacific Rim countries. Responding to questions at an unrelated event in Winnipeg last week, Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Gerry Ritz said Canada […]

By Shannon VanRaes

Trade ‘balancing act’ in focus at ag ministers’ meeting

Jul. 17, 2015 at 7:43 pm CDT

With foreign governments urging Canada to open up its protected dairy, poultry and egg markets, the country’s provincial agriculture ministers are unanimously counter-urging in supply management’s defense. Pressure from trading partners and strong regional support in principle for supply management are nothing new. But Canada’s annual ag ministers’ meeting, held […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. said considering TPP trade deal without Canada

Jul. 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing “contingencies” that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue. One official familiar with the 12-nation […]

By Richard Cowan

Pitting supply management against U.S. subsidies seen as ‘unfair’

Jul. 9, 2015 at 6:41 pm CDT

CNS Canada — How will Canada’s supply management system stack up against America’s domestic supports if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes to fruition? It’s a question that hasn’t been answered, say some experts from Canada’s farming institutions. “It would be completely unfair if we have to compete with lower prices, […]