University of Manitoba economics professor, Fletcher Baragar was on Global News Winnipeg this week talking about which sector will get the hardest in the province if tariffs go into place next month.

To watch and listen to the entire interview, please follow the link to Global News Winnipeg. 

“This is a unique period of time when we have this power concentrated in the hands of a single, somewhat deranged actor in Donald Trump, who doesn’t listen to many people,” Thomas said in an interview.

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Niigaan and Dan talk with former Manitoba premier and former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer about Trump, tariffs and how Manitoba can become the “Costco of Critical Minerals”.

To listen to their conversation, please follow the link to the Winnipeg Free Press.

While it’s likely true Manitoba’s agricultural industry would see some of the greatest benefits of reduced trade barriers, one expert said that may be easier said than done.

Barry Prentice, director of the Transport Institute at the Asper School of Business and a professor in supply chain management, said agriculture is one of the areas where change will be most difficult, in part because there’s “so much entrenched resistance” to breaking down barriers that in theory exist to protect farmers.

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Associate professor of economics, Fletcher Baragar discusses the impacts the tariffs will have on the agricultural sector in Manitoba.

To watch and listen to the full story, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

CBC also wrote an online article for the story, follow the link to Farmers in southern Manitoba anxious, bracing for U.S. tariffs 

CBC’s Ellen Mauro meets concerned Canadian dairy farmers and explains why the system has the U.S. president-elect so riled up. She also spoke to University of Manitoba, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics professor Dr. Ryan Cardwell.

To hear Professor Cardwell’s analysis, please follow the link the CBC National’s Youtube page and scrub to the 4:52 mark of the story. 

“Durum’s much the same,” he said.

“Nothing in the extreme west or Alberta goes that direction because the freight is not advantageous.”

Derek Brewin, an agricultural economics professor with the University of Manitoba, doubts the tariffs will have much impact on CWRS prices.

“I don’t think a small reduction in flows to the U.S. will hurt Canada as much as the tariffs will hurt canola oil, where the U.S. is their major buyer,” Brewin wrote in an email.

“There is a huge share of Canadian Hard Spring that flows out of Vancouver to final customers in Asia and the Middle East and west coast Latin America. If the U.S. adds a tariff on our wheat, it is more likely to drive up U.S. hard spring prices than have much effect on those trade flows or prices at the West Coast.”

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“Maybe they have to face a tariff or maybe they don’t, and that’s going to cause them to delay investment, cut back orders, hours for employees,” he said. 

“If you’re a working Manitoban and you’re working at a factory and your boss is worried about tariffs, you may not get as many hours, maybe not getting overtime anymore. You feel the pinch a little bit.”

Au said it’s hard to tell whether Trump will actually carry out his threats, but if he does, Canada must strike back.

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