There is $150 million on offer and so far about 500 dairy
farmers have been approved for $23.5 million worth of subsidies.
Processors have access another $100 million.
The subsidies are compensation for the loss of market share
to European imports, part of the free trade agreement announced last year.
The government has yet to say what it will do to compensate
dairy and poultry farmers for market share losses related to the
recently-negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
The previous Harper government offered up to $4.3 billion in
subsidies as compensation for the European and Trans-Pacific trade deals. That
promise was that farmers would lose neither profits nor quota value for up to
15 years.
