Bonokoski: The Trudeau Liberals, having done zip for the West when it comes to the oil sector, have put similar effort in coming to the rescue of the canola industry after China mysteriously went into full boycott.
China claimed its last imports of canola from Canada were of poor quality, despite strict quality controls that has the crop annually contributing $26.7 billion to the Canadian economy and supporting more than 250,000 overall jobs.
Admittedly, canola is not as politically sexy as the SNC-Lavalin scandal, or the political chicanery of buying a $5-billion pipeline with taxpayers’ money so that it can remain idle, but there are nonetheless 45,000 Canadian farmers who directly grow canola for their livelihoods, a crop that represents one out of every four dollars harvested in our country’s agricultural sector.
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