OTTAWA -- Beef producers are asking the Harper government for help, saying they face a ``perfect storm.''
They say mounting debt, inadequate insurance, unfair trade barriers and a strong dollar handicaps their foreign market prospects.
They've turned to the NDP to help them make their case to the Harper government, claiming aid to them would help all Canadians.
New Democrat MP Tony Martin says the Canadian Agriculture Income Stabilization program created by the former Liberal government five years ago was inadequate.
And he says cattlemen are even worse off now under the Conservatives, receiving a fraction of previous payments.
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