FIRST READING: How Canada's Dairy Cartel Keeps Fumbling Our Foreign Trade Negotiations

Quebec’s dairy farmers are blocking free trade in Canada

An outdated supply management system designed to protect Quebec’s small dairy farms is undermining Canada's global trade ambitions.

We needed to get rid of the dairy cartel, not sanctify it in law

It complicates trade policy at a crucial time and blocks interprovincial trade, which the Carney Liberals say they want to boost. Read on.

FIRST READING: How Canada's dairy cartel keeps fumbling our foreign trade negotiations

Parliament has just entrenched the one thing that has scuppered more trade negotiations than anything else.

Canadians should be “cheesed-off” about the products that pass for cheese

Cheese is a topic that gets scant attention on these pages, but here goes. Following the G-7 meeting in Alberta at which US President Trump made a flying visit, it was announced that Canada and the US had agreed to a 30-day deadline to hammer out a trade deal. One area that won’t be on the table is protection for Canada’s dairy industry. A Bloc Quebecois bill passed three weeks ago will hamstring the Federal government from backing off on supply…

Quebec's Dairy Farmers Are Blocking Free Trade in Canada

Canada's oft-derided supply management system—a persistent irritant in many of the country's trade relationships—is less focused on price stability, as Ottawa claims, but rather on protecting the dairy sector in one Canadian province. Canada's future trade negotiations with the United States—or…

Dairy repositioned: Functional claims, filtration tech and global flavors drive category growth

After years of mixed performance, the dairy category is showing signs of renewed growth – particularly in segments that tap into evolving consumer priorities around health, taste and innovation.