Brussels - Yesterday afternoon we met with Gerard Choplin and Lidia Senra of European Coordination Via Campesina.
We met to explore our common concerns, learn about the issues we are each working on, understand how CETA relates to these issues, and to see if we can work together and support each other.
They raised with us the European Union's intention to phase-out a milk quota system that benefits European farmers by 2015, and the European Commission's support for GMOs.
We highlighted the Canadian government's agenda to eliminate European regulatory barriers against genetically modified organisms, and our successful - but always under threat - orderly marketing/ supply-management systems for milk, poultry and eggs.