text: The point that is so often ignored is the number of concessions other industries have to make because of one small segment in the agricultural sector. Every trade deal that we go into this issue of protection for the dairy industry comes up. In preliminary talk on TPP it was there. In the CETA deal concessions were finally given with the promise that cheese manufacturers in Canada would be compensated. There are 12 thousand dairy farms in Canada, they are no the backbone of the agricultural sector, and the continued protection by all political parties simply has to stop.