Canada puts global trade deal at risk to defend family-run dairies
Any TPP compromise by PM Harper could endanger his re-election in Oct polls
Washington
ON paper, it's not a fair fight: a dozen nations representing 40 per cent of the world's economic output versus 12,000 Canadian dairy farms.
But Canada's dairies are protected by some of the world's most restrictive agricultural trade barriers, which helped to stall talks last month just as negotiators were closing in on a trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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