OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said the Senate’s latest attempt to gut his party’s bill to protect supply management from being subject to future trade concessions is a “stab in the back” of Canadian dairy, poultry and egg farmers.

Blanchet was reacting to an amendment passed Wednesday by the Senate committee on foreign affairs that made it so the terms of Bill C-282 would not apply to existing agreements, deals that were being renegotiated or ones currently under negotiation.

The Bloc leader said a Senate amendment effectively kills the intent of the bill and urged members of the upper chamber to reject it.{ai:summary}<p>Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet criticized the Senate's amendment to Bill C-282, which aims to protect supply management for Canadian dairy, poultry, and egg farmers. He called the changes a "stab in the back" for the agricultural sector, as they exempt existing and renegotiated trade agreements. </p><p>#politics</p>

Senate's move to gut Bloc supply management bill a 'stab in the back' to farmers: Blanchet

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