Canada is once again proving that international trade agreements aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Canada was supposed to open its dairy market to American farmers. Instead, they’ve been running an elaborate shell game—restricting imports, hoarding tariff quotas, and flooding global markets with artificially cheap dairy proteins that undercut American producers. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), are now calling out Canada’s tactics. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, these senators laid it out plainly: “Historically, Canada has failed to live up to its commitments to provide access to its…

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