WINNIPEG — Maxime Bernier, the libertarian candidate who lost the Conservative leadership to Andrew Scheer by a hair this May, says he will no longer push his party to end agricultural supply management. “I won’t bring any policies to abolish supply management. If some members want, that will be their choice, but it won’t be mine,” Bernier said. He had suggested ending supply management could prove a bargaining chip within a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Though he had professed a preference for the finance portfolio, Scheer instead made Bernier the industry critic in the shadow cabinet he unveiled last week.

Source: National Post September 07, 2017 21:33 UTC