Prime minister pledges compensation for dairy farmers hit by USMCA deal

Source: Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press, October 4, 2018 

Dairy Farmers of Canada president says meeting with Trudeau ‘cannot appease the concerns of the dairy farmers’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says dairy farmers will be compensated for their expected losses under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, making the pledge directly at a meeting with their representatives on Thursday.

Trudeau met privately with dairy representatives in downtown Montreal amid concerns in the industry that they’re bearing the brunt under the recently concluded free-trade pact.

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