Discussion on CTV Question Period about TPP trade deal.
Point was made that if we do not join, we have much more to lose than what, on the surface, we have to gain.
Think back to years when US was considering country of origin laws. Canada insisted on keeping protection for supply management and wheat board which were irritants with US farmers. Our livestock farmers may have thought that neither of these was important to them.
Not saying that concession from Canada would have stopped COOL implementation but might have helped, would not have cost us much to give up policy on way out anyway.
Point was made that if we do not join, we have much more to lose than what, on the surface, we have to gain.
Think back to years when US was considering country of origin laws. Canada insisted on keeping protection for supply management and wheat board which were irritants with US farmers. Our livestock farmers may have thought that neither of these was important to them.
Not saying that concession from Canada would have stopped COOL implementation but might have helped, would not have cost us much to give up policy on way out anyway.
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