Originally posted by chuckChuck
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and yet , this time it was ok ?
- The NFU was very active in nation-wide debates on so-called "free trade."
- Canada's two-price wheat system ended July 31, a casualty of the then-pending Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA or CUSTA). Months prior, an estimated 4,000 Canadians, including many NFU members on tractors, blocked the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor and Detroit to demonstrate against the proposed plan.
NFU President Wayne Easter was featured at a large Pro-Canada Network Rally held in Regina.
1988
• NFU officials participated in a tractor parade held in Brainerd, Minnesota protesting the FTA. It was clear that US farmers were as leery of this deal as their Canadian counterparts.
- The NFU was very active in nation-wide debates on so-called "free trade."
- Canada's two-price wheat system ended July 31, a casualty of the then-pending Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA or CUSTA). Months prior, an estimated 4,000 Canadians, including many NFU members on tractors, blocked the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor and Detroit to demonstrate against the proposed plan.
NFU President Wayne Easter was featured at a large Pro-Canada Network Rally held in Regina.
1988
• NFU officials participated in a tractor parade held in Brainerd, Minnesota protesting the FTA. It was clear that US farmers were as leery of this deal as their Canadian counterparts.
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