With Prime Minister Trudeau’s resignation announcement, Farms.com connected with Tyler McCann, managing director of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, about how the federal Liberals under Trudeau viewed the ag sector.
The federal Liberals were always going to struggle to connect with farmers because of their makeup, he says.
“The Liberal cabinet was generally a reflection of urban Canada,” he told Farms.com. “So, I think it’s reasonable to see there’s a disconnect, and that political reality drove a lot of what we saw.”