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e-1295 (Dairy products)

E-petition
Initiated by Marie-Chantal Houde from Racine, Quebec

Original language of petition: French

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
  • Sheep and goat dairy farming is an innovative agricultural industry that, because of a lack of Canadian sheep’s milk, does not currently meet demand from Canadian consumers increasingly looking for these products;
  • Dairy farms contribute to land use and build Canadian wealth;
  • Sheep and goat dairy farms are already in a precarious financial situation given the current entry of European sheep’s milk cheese;
  • Sheep and goat dairy farms will be even more heavily impacted than other dairy farms by massive imports of sheep’s milk cheese and the importation of 17,700 tonnes of European cheese caused by the recent free trade agreement;
  • Financial support is vital to ensure that Canadian sheep and goat dairy farms are profitable and sustainable, as well as to modernize them so they can compete with European cheese imports;
  • European dairy companies receive financial support from their governments; and
  • Sheep and goat dairy farms suffered enormous harm by being willfully excluded from the Government of Canada’s dairy business program.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to rectify this injustice and to create a compensation program so that our sheep and goat dairy businesses can also receive financial support just like Canadian cow dairy farms.
Government response tabled on March 28, 2018 (Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-71-02)
Open for signature
September 27, 2017, at 11:07 a.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
January 25, 2018, at 11:07 a.m. (EDT)
Presented to the House of Commons
Pierre-Luc Dusseault (Sherbrooke)
February 14, 2018 (Petition No. 421-02076)
Government response tabled
March 28, 2018
Photo - Pierre-Luc Dusseault
Sherbrooke
New Democratic Party Caucus
Quebec