Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau said that the fourth payment completes ‘full and fair’ compensation to producers who have lost market share as a result of two international trade agreements.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the US has prevailed in the first dispute settlement panel proceeding ever brought under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) and the Dairy Processors Association of Canada said that not only were parliamentarians misled by the Government, but they were also misled on the date of implementation of Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
While the Canadian government has been under fire from the country’s dairy industry over its signing of the new trade deal with the US and Mexico, it has just announced the second phase of the C$250m (US$188m) Dairy Farm Investment Program.
