EDITOR:
Canada is truly blessed to have the dairy farmers, the dairy industry, and the marketing system we have. It needs to be strengthened. Do not let Prime Minister Trudeau destroy it with his USMCA deal he has made with the devil.
Do not listen to economists. I think they are idiots. Listen to your farmers. For years we have worked hard, we are true entrepreneurs working in the heat, freezing cold, weekends, during all holidays, suffering calamities. (Have you ever got kicked in the nards by a nervous heifer while trying to AI her? We all sure have) all to build our Canadian industry. Prime Minister Trudeau has no right to give it away.
We do not get subsidized by Canadian's tax dollars. Someone qualified can come look at my books if you think I’m lying. For 40 years, I got no subsidies, I worked for free, assuming I'm building equity, and I paid heavily into my industry fund to grow and develop the dairy markets in Canada. Trudeau gave it all away.
We can’t just blame Trudeau, all that came before him since supply management was invented. We didn't defend it; the erosion has always been present.
Please demand of your MP that they will have no part of this deal that will throw us away like human garbage.
Ranald MacFarlane,
Fernwood