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If Bush Were Truely a Free Trader...

...he'd put a stop to this bullshit right now

New tariffs by the U.S. Commerce Department against Canadian wheat farmers "will be fought with everything we've got," Canada's minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board said Friday.

Ralph Goodale told CBC Newsworld the real problem is low farm incomes, and he placed blame for that on hefty subsidies by the U.S. and Europe which have caused over-production and driven down prices.

The department said Friday that it has concluded the Canadian Wheat Board is dumping wheat on the U.S. market, meaning it sells for less than the Canadian domestic price or the cost of production.

There will be a new tariff of eight per cent on durum wheat and six per cent for hard red spring wheat. Those charges are in addition to a four per cent tariff imposed earlier this year.


For all his talk about free trade, Bush has yet to really do anything in my mind that is noteworthy or historic.

Posted by drizzten on May 7, 2003 10:57 AM |

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