🇨🇦 Washington hits Canadian mushrooms with tariffs over tax breaks every farmer gets

The U.S. Commerce Department just slapped tariffs on Canadian mushrooms because our growers benefit from the same provincial sales tax exemptions available to literally all farmers across the country. Not special subsidies. Not secret handouts. Basic agricultural tax treatment that exists in the U.S. too. But logic doesn't matter when American lobbyists want protection. The investigation, confirmed as deeply flawed by Mushrooms Canada, targets standard tax policy while conveniently ignoring identical American programs.

This is protectionism dressed up as fairness. Giorgio Mushroom CEO Mark Currie celebrates shutting out competition while his own industry swims in comparable support. The real story: Canada gets punished for having farmers, and our spineless government will probably apologize for it. Sovereignty means nothing when we let foreign trade coalitions rewrite our domestic tax policy through tariff threats.

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