Deal threatens Alta. sugar sector

A Canada-Colombia free trade deal before the House of Commons could close down the southern Alberta sugar beet industry, a sugar industry official warns.

Canadian Sugar Institute president Sandra Marsden told MPs Oct. 27 that the proposed deal, now stalled in the House of Commons in an NDP-Bloc Québécois filibuster over the Colombian human rights record, would open the Canadian industry to damaging new competition.

source: producer