🇨🇦 Ottawa sold dairy before and they will do it again

Canada’s dairy farmers are warning the obvious: every time Ottawa struts into U.S. trade talks, supply management ends up as bargaining-chip confetti. Under CUSMA, Washington already got more access to our dairy market, and now farmers are publicly begging the political class not to repeat the stunt, as reported. Nothing says sovereign trade strategy like sacrificing your own producers so ministers can brag about stability at a podium.

This is the Trudeau-era legacy in one file: weak borders, weak industry protection, weak negotiating posture. Ottawa lectures Canadians about resilience while treating food security like a coupon code in a continental deal. Dairy is not just milk and cheese, it is domestic production capacity, rural survival, and one of the last sectors not fully handed over to multinational price-war logic. If Canada cannot defend its own farmers from predictable American pressure, spare us the grand speeches about national interest and economic strength. That is not strategy. That is managed decline in a tailored suit.

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