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The Liberal Rural Caucus led by Chair Ken Boshcoff, an MP in Thunder Bay and Nick Whyte, a poultry farmer and Liberal delegate from Huron-Bruce, were instrumental in ensuring that these resolution were sent to plenary. The supply management resolution was overwhelmingly supported by the Liberal delegates at plenary on Thursday morning during the adoption of policy resolutions.
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Resolution on Supply management

WHEREAS the Canadian agriculture and agrifood sector is integral to our high standard of living; and

WHEREAS the Liberal Party of Canada committed in 2004 Moving Canada Forward Platform
Bulletin on Supporting Canada’s Farmers to defend orderly marketing system, including supply management systems for dairy, poultry and eggs; and

WHEREAS the Prime Minister’s Caucus Task Force on Future Opportunities in Farming recommended that the federal government continue to uphold our orderly marketing systems in all fronts and against all challenges; and

WHEREAS there are immediate threats to the import controls pillar, thereby threatening one of the three pillars upon which supply management stands; and

WHEREAS these threats are leading to the erosion of the domestic market for dairy, poultry and eggs;

BE IT RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the federal government to reaffirm its commitment to supply management and the sectors under supply management whose producers provide Canadians with the highest quality of dairy, poultry and egg products; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the federal government to formally recognize and reflect in agriculture and trade initiatives the three pillars of supply management as: import controls, producer pricing and production planning; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the federal government to reflect their commitment to supply management and the three pillars through the realization of new tariff rate quotas for dairy products under Canada’s WTO commitments.

The Liberal Party of Canada

Bravo, to those in attendance-cg