Blacklock’s- Lib Senators Protest Bloc Bill
Bill C-282 An Act To Amend The Department Of Foreign Affairs Act enshrines dairy, poultry and egg quotas as non-negotiable in any future trade negotiations. The one-page bill passed the Commons in 2023 by a vote of 262 to 51. Opponents numbered mainly Prairie Conservatives and two Liberal MPs, Chandra Arya (Nepean, Ont.) and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (Beaches-East York, Ont.).
Clever move by the Bloc as much as the effects are reprehensible.
Between a Bloc and a hard place.
The #Libranos are about to find out what “feeding the crocodiles in hopes you’ll be eaten last” means…
Note that 50% of bulk milk within tier 2 Canada is from Quebec, and we’re now ruled by the wishes of the PQ.
lol… well I suppose, until the AB/Sask. separation referendum anyway.
Relax, the ndp will vote with liberals. Everybody’s job is safe.
The Bill should be killed.
Then supply management should follow.
A litmus test for Conservative resolve. They failed. Power over principles. Compromise all the way to the Gulags.
One quarter of one percent of the population gets to torpedo the rest of the economy. What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine how big Canadian dairy, poultry and egg producers could be if they weren’t bound to supply management. Billions of dollars in international sales lost. More free trade with other countries because supply management is no longer an obstacle. Another failure of government policy. And Polievre has given no indication that he will change anything.
That’s because the dairy lobby attending Conservative annual conventions outnumber free market conservatives.
So what Quid Pro Quo are the liberal senators looking to get out of the Bloc?
Western Canada. The battered wife of CON-federation!
With the potential to be more….far more free and prosperous on her own.