Category Archives: Agriculture (Rural)

(October 18, 1999) Despite the hoopla, farms are a drain on the economy. October marks the first-ever Canadian Agriculture and Food Celebration, and Canada’s agriculture ministers — when they aren’t begging Ottawa for farm relief — are busy touting the successes of Canadian agriculture. Continue reading →

(December 21, 1996) Poor Countries like to maintain cheap food policies by scandalously underpaying their dirt-poor farmers. Canada, with a curious logic found only in the most sophisticated economies, maintains a cheap food policy by overpaying for farm products grown here. Continue reading →