Mark Carney’s Liberal government has chosen a city man – Michael Coteau of Scarborough – to be chairman of the House of Commons Agriculture Committee.
The vice-chairs remain the same as before the election - John Barlow and Yves Perron.
Coteau was an Ontario cabinet minister before being elected MP for Scarborough-Woburn.
What has Prime Minister Mark Carney got against farmers?
He sacked Cody Blois as agriculture minister, although Blois did a few really popular things such as boosting subsidies for risk management programs and cash advances.
Maybe he's getting set to trade away more market shares of the dairy and poultry industries to get trade deals with the U.S., the U.K. and European Union.
