OP-ED: Ottawa Wants to Keep Beef Prices High — Deliberately. Here’s How

"Cases like this raise an uncomfortable question: does Ottawa actually want to keep beef prices high?"

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Author: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

We recently received information from a reliable industry source about how the federal government is administering beef import permits. If accurate, it raises serious concerns about whether Ottawa is knowingly sustaining an outdated and opaque system that keeps beef prices unnecessarily high. At a t…