Farmscape for March 27, 2025

A partner with Polar Pork says Canada's farmers need strong common-sense advocates in government that are willing to negotiate trade with representatives of other common-sense governments.
Amid new Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural products and threatened U.S. tariffs, Canadian will be heading to the polls April 28th.
Florian Possberg, a partner with Polar Pork, recalls going back to mid-February there was a belief that the Liberal government was probably running out of gas and there was a very good chance we would have a new majority Conservative government, which provided hope that we would have a stable government that would be in a great position to negotiate with our trading partners, whether the United States or China, and now the election appears to be a horse race.

Quote-Florian Possberg-Polar Pork:
We don't know if we're going to get a Liberal government or a Conservative government.
We don't know if we'll have a majority or a minority.
If we come out of April 28th and we don't have a strong mandate for any party, that's just going to continue the uncertainty that we've been battling with currently.
In addition to that, it's strongly believed that the Conservatives are more sensitive to the needs of western Canadian farmers.
A large part of their political base is western Canada based, where as the Liberals are eastern Canada based.
Our hope as farmers is that a Conservative government would be more sensitive to what our situation is and what our needs are.
A Liberal government tends to focus on things like cars and things that are produced in Ontario and Quebec and sometimes they certainly overlook our concerns.
So, this has shaken up to be quite a tough period for our farmers particularly in western Canada but more broadly all across Canada.

Possberg says, as farmers, we need strong advocates in government that are common sense and willing to negotiate with those representing other countries that are common sense as well.
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Bruce Cochrane.

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