If both sides drop their levies, Kovrig said, Canada’s agriculture industry will be increasingly depending on China as an export market.
“That means the (agriculture) sector is going to become essentially a constituency for China within Canada that is going to repeatedly lobby the government to foster that relationship, protect that relationship, and not do anything that China doesn’t want Canada to do, lest it once again punish Canada by blocking that trade,” said Kovrig, who’s now a senior advisor with the International Crisis Group…