As the right wing business rhetoric about supply management continues, Prof. Bruce Muirhead is interviewed about the system and as always provides clarity. This is worth listening to.-cg
Supply Management and Canada-EU Free Trade -
from CJCS Stratford 1240 radio
As the Harper Government negotiates a free trade agreement with the European Union, Canadian farmers are waiting to see what the talks produce.
Supply management which governs dairy, poultry and egg farming in Canada has been under fire from foreign agriculture interests and certain media commentators.
They want it dismantled as part of a free trade agreement.
The quota system limits the ability of non-Canadian farmers to dump their products into our market.
Bruce Muirhead is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo with a focus on trade agreements.
He says supply management makes sense and the criticisms of it are confusing. For more recorded details from the show :see CJCS 1240 Radio
