Canada-Farmers complain of United States protectionism.

CANADA-CLAIMS OF US PROTECTIONISM.

Canada’s hog industry lobby wants prime minister Stephen Harper to pick up the telephone, call American president Barack Obama and warn him about the misguided policies of his agriculture secretary.

In particular, leaders of the Canadian Pork Council said Obama should be told that U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack’s decision to encourage packers to voluntarily go further than country-of-origin labelling rules, with the threat of mandatory new rules if they don’t comply, is a body blow to trade and to the livestock industries of Canada and the United States..