Trump:"Going to stand up to Canada starting Today!
Trump:"Going to stand up to Canada starting Today!
In his "all American jobs" speech in Kenosha Wisconsin 4/19/2017 Trump highlights Canada and how he is going to fight for the diary farmer in Wis for better deals with Canada.
In Canada very unfair things have happened to our diary farmers, it is very unfair. Very unfair typical one sided deal against the United State and its not going to be happening for long.
Listed a group of people going to get together and we are going to call Canada. We are going to ask what happened? They may have a response but we are going to get a solution. Because we know what the solution is alright? (applause). We are going to work on that immediately like starting today. Its a terrible thing that happened to the farmers of Wisconsin.
Goes on to talk about how NAFTA has been a disaster for the U.S. "A complete and total disaster". Long speech about how terrible it is and how Trump will change it.
Dave notes this is his usual bluster.
Having no clue what he is talking about I did some fast research and found:
FARMGATE: Canadian agriculture vs. Trump article highlights:
By this time next week, Canadians will have started to learn what it is like living and working with Donald Trump as the latest U.S. president.
By all indications, his term will be the most protectionist in U.S. history. Promises to pull out of the TPP and NAFTA have already unsettled many while his vow to charge a 35 per cent import tariff on non-American made automobiles has others saying, “But surely he doesn’t include those from Canada?”.
Unfortunately, the feeling is it does. We are not part of the U.S.A.
Not much has been said about Canadian agriculture and how Trump’s actions will affect us, but given his “all American” stance on everything else, my feeling is that Canadian farms should be prepared to push our leaders into the fight of their lives, even if it means standing behind them with pitchforks pointed.
The United States is the destination for over 50 per cent of Canadian agricultural exports. While the total is little more than a blip against American agriculture production, it is a major market for us. And as far as Trump is concerned, could be made in the U.S.A. by Americans from American products.
Trump’s heavy and high-handed stance on “Made in America” will no doubt take a swipe against Canadian produced food items and many of us have little faith in the ability of our current Prime Minister and his government to stand up to him.
Four farm groups, the National Milk Producer Federation, the International Dairy Foods Association, the U.S. Dairy Export Council and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture have co-signed a letter to Donald Trump asking him to take a stance on what is referred to as Canada’s protectionist policies — specifically our dairy quota system. For sure, “The Donald” will take it on if for no other reason than to prove he can win where other presidents have failed.
Presently, the U.S. exports millions of litres of what is referred to as “diafiltered milk” from a horde of U.S. dairy farms located just over the border in New York and Wisconsin. To be very brief, this is milk over which Canada has no control over the standards under which it is produced. It is filtered several times to remove the water, then exported to Canadian processors who reconstitute it and use it in their products, thus bypassing Canadian fluid milk in the process.
Unfortunately, and as can well be expected of Canadian government agencies, no one here can agree on exactly what it is and, thus, how Canadian tariff should, or should not, apply to it. Therefore, it continues to flow to our processors . . . and increases monthly without any governmental controls. This, however, is not enough. They want more, lots more.
The new U.S. government would like nothing better than to have access to all our supply management farms: dairy, poultry and eggs. Trump will yell and posture and threaten until he gets what he wants
It will take a strong leader to stand up to the new U.S. government, something we most definitely do not have at this time. A so called “good working relationship” seldom leads to much good for Canadian agriculture and manufacturing and especially for supply management.
Hang on to your hats, we are in for a wild ride!