'Time to put emotions aside': Alberta's case against retaliatory tariffs
'American ranchers and farmers are definitely a large part of the base that elected President Trump,' says Alberta's minister of agriculture and irrigation, RJ Sigurdson.
And, Sigurdson tells me, this is what they're telling him: 'Listen, we have provided a runway for the president to tackle and move forward with his strategy related to tariff inequities.' But as farmers move into their planting season, they're also saying, time is running out, 'that runway is getting very, very short.' Farmers were able to defer decision-making, until now; it's planting season and choices about whether to plant, what to plant and how many acres to plant, have to be made.
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