Fundamental science, innovation don’t need to be seen in opposition
In current policy discussions, fundamental science and innovation are often placed in opposition to one another. Is it possible to resolve this apparent conflict, and to optimize the value of government research investment, by strengthening the continuum from basic research to innovation? The question arises, in part, from the excellent recommendations of the recently released […]
Got milk? Wisconsin has too much, but that’s not Canada’s problem
U.S. President Donald Trump recently denounced Canada’s dairy system. His animus resulted from a long-advertised change to Canadian dairy import regulations that affected ultra-filtered milk. The public face of the dispute is the about 75 dairy farmers in and around Wisconsin who were told that their milk was no longer needed by their processor, Grassland […]
Canadian farmers getting Trumped
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent war of words on supply management has emboldened several anti-Canadian-farmer cheerleaders to emerge. Chief among them is Sylvain Charlebois, who speaks from his comfortable bubble as the dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Charlebois sounds like he comes from the past when he indicates that killing supply management could […]
Where will Trudeau draw the line on Trump’s trade tactics?
TORONTO—Where are we going on NAFTA renegotiation? Ill-informed grandstanding by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with the threat to terminate the trade agreement, is no doubt intended to intimidate Canada and Mexico into making concessions to advantage the U.S. But how far do we go? Facts don’t matter. The U.S. has a trade surplus with […]
MPs from all parties defend supply management against Trump, Bernier
Rural MPs from across multiple parties have been hearing concern from their constituents after American President Donald Trump threatened to come after Canada’s dairy industry. Mr. Trump turned his sights, and his tweets, towards Canadian dairy farmers last month, claiming that because of Canada’s trade regulations on dairy products, which block much of the United States’ dairy […]
Trump for dummies: there’s no scapegoat like a foreign scapegoat
OTTAWA—The CNN anchors kept looking at each other, half-laughing. “Canada?” they kept saying, as in United States President Donald Trump is picking a fight with Canada? This was a few weeks ago, when Trump was calling Canada’s dairy policies a “disgrace” that damaged the interests of U.S. farmers. With the 100-day mark bearing down on him, […]
Trudeau: don’t back down on Canada’s supply management system
TORONTO—Canada’s supply management system is now the target of the Trump administration, but this U.S. whining is not new. Successive U.S. administrations have railed against the system because it prevents a U.S. dairy industry, notorious for overproduction, from dumping its surplus into the Canadian market. Yet the system works well for Canada, providing stability for […]
How Trump can make American dairy farmers ‘great again’
Dairy farmers across the world are in crisis, in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Europe—almost everywhere except in Canada. But urban pundits, especially those who believe that the free market solves everything, have a hard time understanding what’s actually going on in the countryside. Town and country can be very […]
Trudeau smart to hold his tongue after tough Trump trade talk
MONTREAL—In the big picture, the world is probably having a decent week when Donald Trump turns his rhetorical guns on Canada rather than on North Korea or Russia. On the scale of a nuclear showdown, the stakes involved in a Canada/United States milk war are—to put it mildly—in a different league. But even in the […]
Tory leadership candidates courting supply management group for support
Multiple candidates in the Conservative leadership race have reached out for support from the organizers of a politically active Facebook group in Quebec created to defend supply management. Staff on the campaigns for Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, Sask.), Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.), and Steven Blaney (Bellechasse-Les Etchemins-Lévis, Que.) have contacted the administrator or one of […]
