New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Canada will spend C$1.75 billion ($1.32 billion) over eight years to compensate dairy farmers facing greater competition due to free trade deals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government said on Friday, attempting to satisfy an influential group of voters two months before a national election.
The payments to dairy farmers recognize sales they have lost after trade pacts were struck with the European Union and Pacific nations, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said in an announcement made at a dairy farm in Compton, Quebec.
Bibeau said Trudeau's government will make no further dairy market-access concessions in other trade negotiations.
Canada's 10,600 dairy farmers are concentrated in the vote-rich provinc...