And, of course, looming over it all are the provincial supply-managed sectors, those parochial relics of 1970s statism. The scare-tactics they use with respect to free trade with the United States – hormone-laced milk and the need for "food security" – may not apply to interprovincial barriers, but that doesn't stop them from defending the vital importance of protecting Quebec shoppers from the temptations of Ontario cheese and Manitoba chickens.
No federal government wants to pick a fight with all ten provinces, three territories, and the well-funded agricultural marketing boards simultaneously, so instead they dither and dissemble, hoping we won't notice that, within our own borders, our leaders are everything that we accuse Trump of being: bullying, blinkered and economically-ignorant.
No federal government wants to pick a fight with all ten provinces, three territories, and the well-funded agricultural marketing boards simultaneously, so instead they dither and dissemble, hoping we won't notice that, within our own borders, our leaders are everything that we accuse Trump of being: bullying, blinkered and economically-ignorant.