Dairy Farmers of Canada President itemizes damage to his industry from USMCA
OTTAWA — The President of the Dairy Farmers of Canada is calling it a nightmare that has become a reality.
Despite multiple assurance to the contrary, Pierre Lampron commented in an opinion letter that the Trudeau government sacrificed his industry, once again, at the altar of flawed trade negotiations.
He wrote, “Faced with an American administration that prefers to dump their problem on our doorstep rather than fix it itself, the Trudeau government has failed to stand up for Canada’s family-owned dairy farms and homegrown dairy. Even worse, this deal will allow Americans to dictate our dairy policies.”
By agreeing to the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), Lampron writes, “the Trudeau government is opening the door to giant industrial farms and will allow the US dairy model to take hold here at home. Canadians do not want to fund milk production through their taxes. Canadians do not want family farms to give way to industrial farms with tens of thousands of cows.”