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This is John Batchel. Speaking with colleague Charles Burton at Ottawa about the challenge to Mr.

Carney early in his administration about canola seeds, a great export from Saskatchewan in the west of Canada. However, China cut off the canola seeds some time ago, 100% tariff

or blockading or embargo, some threat. And the comparable threat was, if you don't take

our cars, we won't take your canola. Now Mr. Carney faces that choice. Here Charles explained

and why and what's driving this and where it's going.

Politics, food and surveillance altogether. More of this tonight.

Well, after Canada imposed 100% tariff on the import of Chinese electric vehicles,

China imposed 100% tariff on the meal and oil produced by Canadian canola seeds,

which is a kind of rape, rape seed oil.

Subsequently, Canada imposed 100% tariff on the seeds themselves.

Well, there are 40,000 farmers in Canada who produce canola, and the total production is

about $12 billion worth of those little seeds a year, and $ five billion is exported to, or was last year,

exported the People's Republic of China, of which four billion was the seeds. So the sudden loss

of the Chinese market has been devastating to the farmers because it's very difficult to make a rapid transition to

selling the stuff in other countries. Of course, it has a world market.

The other thing about canola is that the alternative to farming canola would be wheat or barley or possibly pulses.

And the return on those products, on those agricultural commodities for

the farmers is not as high as the canola seeds. So Mr. Carney is facing a considerable amount of

pressure from the western part of Canada to remove the 100% tariff on the electric vehicles to, and that China reciprocally

will remove the completely unjustified restrictions on the import of the agricultural commodities,

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