The Bloc Quebecois has introduced a motion to stop federal Liberals from making any more trade deals that allow greater access to the country’s dairy system..Canada’s dairy farms are under strict government controls on what they can produce..The amount of foreign access to the market has also been tightly regulated but the Liberals last three trade deals allow foreign countries greater access into the market, said the Bloc..“Something very important for milk and egg and poultry production is given away as a token and nothing comes back for those producers, so we say in the law that this should not happen anymore,” Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet told CBC News.. Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .“[The Liberal government says,] ‘Oh, we will will compensate you. And you know what, they don’t.”.The CBC reported Bloc Québécois MP Louis Plamondon’s legislation, Bill C-216, would amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act to state that the minister “must not make any commitment … by future trade treaty or agreement” that would increase the tariff rate quota (TRQ) applicable to dairy products, poultry or eggs, or reduce the tariff applicable to those goods when they are imported in excess of that quota..The private member’s bill is up for its debate on Tuesday..Blanchet slammed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland for delaying her fall economic update and said her spending plans must include the new NAFTA deal compensation farmers are waiting for..“This money is owed, is expected [and] is terribly late,” he told CBC..The economic statement is set for Nov. 30..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
