Canada's pork producers are being called on to engage with their local candidates in the federal election. With election day looming, Canada's pork producers are being encouraged to be involved in making the candidates in their ridings and their parties aware of the issues that are important to them and to be aware of the positions of all candidates on matters that affect agriculture.
Cam Dahl, the General Manager of Manitoba Pork, says the federal election is an opportunity to remind candidates and their parties of the importance of agriculture to Canada's economy and key issues such as trade, business risk management and animal health.
Clip-Cam Dahl-Manitoba Pork:
We've negotiated a number of agreements with countries like the European Union or the Trans-Pacific Partnership but we don't always see the benefits because we're getting non-tariff barriers. I'll use Europe as an example where we're just not able to export our meat products into Europe so we need the government to shift a little bitt, to fucus on insuring that those barriers are removed.