Free Trade Spikes ‘Buy Local’ Bids

Campaigns to “buy local” groceries may run afoul of free trade pacts, cautions an industry group. A New Democrat bill now before Parliament would have Agriculture Canada promote local food purchases as a national procurement policy: “I don’t know how you can put that kind of bill in place”.

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