Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says farmers will receive compensation from the federal government in the freshly-inked NAFTA replacement deal, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. That comes just hours after Ontario Premier Doug Ford began calling for that compensation. "[Farmers] need the support of the federal government," Ford said on Monday morning at Queen's Park. The new USMCA deal would give American farmers greater access to Canada's dairy industry — a sticking point during negotiations that generated ire from farmers and premiers alike. We are calling on the federal government to compensate Ontario dairy farmers.

Source: CBC News October 01, 2018 15:36 UTC