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Farmer buyouts: a copout?

Mining industry: no evidence of federal bailouts

Forestry industry: no evidence of federal bailouts; in fact, the federal government adopted an explicit non-intervention policy in 1994.

Fishing industry: evidence of federal bailout in the early 1990’s following the closure of the Atlantic cod fishing industry due to depleted stocks.

Why should tobacco growers be treated to the tax payers’ purse when they had access to the same information we have: consumption rates have been going down for the past 30 years as has the value of tobacco?

Additional Information from the Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue

Recent trends in tobacco agriculture in Canada
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada.
Ottawa: Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, June 2008. [Report]
Table of contents : History of tobacco growing in Canada - Trends in tobacco growing in Canada - Make-up payments, domestic sales and export sales - More on domestic sales and export sales - Market forces affecting tobacco agriculture - The growing gap between tobacco leaf production and manufactured tobacco consumption - Conclusions - References.

Tobacco in Canada to 2011
Research and Markets.
Dublin, Ireland: Research and Markets, 2007. [Report]
Presents detailed data on the market for tobacco – chewing tobacco, cigarettes and loose tobacco, cigars and cigarillos – in Canada. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by categories. The leading tobacco company in the market in 2006 was Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, followed by Altria Group, Inc. and Rothmans.