Does this basically ensure that Trump will not back down from heavy tariffs against us? I believe England walked away from any trade negotiation with Canada due to numerous such protectionist approaches. The Canadian Senate passed this in record time, very fast for government. So now we have determined there will be no dairy negotiations, no fair access to financial institutions, no competition in telecom etc.
What are we going to offer America in negotiations as Trump is committed to tariffs?
It's strange for me to hear so many claim that Trump is protectionist while we have blocked access to many industries in Canada.
The Senate has adopted the Bloc Québécois bill to protect supply management from any concessions in future trade negotiations.
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I don't want the Americans anywhere near our banking system, or our supply management systems. But especially our banking system. I don't want our economy crashing every time Americans put a Republican in the White House. The only reason we did not have an economic crash in 2008 when the rest of the world went down, is because Paul Martin refused to let the American Banking system in.
Since 2008, world leaders have beaten a path to the Bank of Canada's door step to learn how to keep American bankers out of their systems in future. And the guy they were talking to at that time, is now our Prime Minister.
The British Prime Minister who walked away from the deal, was driven from office 6 months later, by his OWN PARTY, who replaced him with Liz Truss, and then quickly replaced her before losing the General election. The British Conservatives didn't sign a single deal with any trading partner after Brexit. It's why they lost the election, and it's why the new British PM was so desperate to make a deal with the USA. He's under just as much pressure as Trump to get SOME kind of trade deal signed with someone, anyone. The deal with the USA is the first the Brits have signed since Brexit.
I don't want our children drinking milk with growth hormones and anti-biotics either. Americans are the most unhealthy people in the first world and a lot of that has to do with all of the chemicals and processing in their foods, and in their food supply system.
If Americans want to sell their products here, those products have to meet our standards, not theirs. The customer gets to choose what they will eat. Canadians want our farmers to have a good living, and our food, to be free of drugs, growth hormones and anti-biotics. We're choosing to buy Canadian more and more. Buy local has been a strategy at our supermarkets for generations.
Supply management and marketing boards have enabled our farmers and our consumers to have stable income and stable pricing, reducing farm bankruptcies, and improving the economy. We aren't having bird flu problems affecting pricing in the USA because we have few flocks of more than 100,000 chickens. We don't have factory farms here to the extent that you see them in the USA.
Americans are losing 200,000+ birds at a time in giant factory farms. And it takes months for the replacement chicks to grow up and start producing saleable eggs. Young chickens produce small eggs. We want our farmers to feed our people. To make that a reality, our farmers need stable income, and to not be subject to "product dumping", which crashes prices or the situation with eggs in the USA.
If you want to live and eat like and American, go to the USA. Canadians don't want our nation to end up like the USA. Fat, unhealthy and poor.
