e-1295 (Dairy products)
- Keywords
- Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
- Dairy industry
- Government compensation
- Trade agreements
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Sheep and goat dairy farming is an innovative agricultural industry that, because of a lack of Canadian sheep’s milk, does not currently meet demand from Canadian consumers increasingly looking for these products;
- Dairy farms contribute to land use and build Canadian wealth;
- Sheep and goat dairy farms are already in a precarious financial situation given the current entry of European sheep’s milk cheese;
- Sheep and goat dairy farms will be even more heavily impacted than other dairy farms by massive imports of sheep’s milk cheese and the importation of 17,700 tonnes of European cheese caused by the recent free trade agreement;
- Financial support is vital to ensure that Canadian sheep and goat dairy farms are profitable and sustainable, as well as to modernize them so they can compete with European cheese imports;
- European dairy companies receive financial support from their governments; and
- Sheep and goat dairy farms suffered enormous harm by being willfully excluded from the Government of Canada’s dairy business program.
- Open for signature
- September 27, 2017, at 11:07 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- January 25, 2018, at 11:07 a.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Pierre-Luc Dusseault
(Sherbrooke)
February 14, 2018 (Petition No. 421-02076) - Government response tabled
- March 28, 2018