Manitoba Pork general manager Cam Dahl is urging calm to relieve trade tensions with the United States.
He was commenting in the context of an advertising campaign launched by Ontario Premier Dourg Ford. It so angered United States President Donald Trump that he broke off trade negotiations with Canada.
Dahl said bluster and rhetoric coming from north of the border, to be really quite blunt, isn’t always helpful.
He said it makes things more difficult for our allies in the United States, and we have those.
He said some of the public commentary is not all that positive all the time but, when you sit down across the table from farm leaders in the U.S., from state politicians for example, elected officials, that there’s a good understanding of the value of this partnership.
He said good relations are important for the upcoming review of the trade deal among Canada, the U.S. and Mexico and said maintaining trade benefits both farmers and consumers.
Dahl said. “I think, to steal a line from medicine, it’s do no harm and that’s the primary objective of going into the review and potential renegotiations.”