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NEW - Canada Paid Farmers For Losses That Never Happened
Only a fraction of the American dairy products Canada agreed to let in under a major trade deal ever actually crossed the border, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has the numbers to prove it, numbers that reframe who's really responsible for the current trade tension.
Government compensation kept flowing to dairy farmers anyway, calculated on quotas that were barely touched, and Dr. Charlebois puts a specific price tag on what taxpayers covered for competition that never materialized. Calling it compensation instead of a subsidy becomes a much harder sell once the math is laid out.
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