Canada: BC cherry calls for government support falls on deaf ears
date:Aug 13, 2012
calling on the government to step in with subsidies.

It makes me sick to my stomach, he said. This is a whole years work going down the drain.

He points out the subsidies competitors from the Washington cherry industry have received, for example, over $100 million for workers housing over the past nine years. It is things such as this which have helped push the prices down.

The BC government is having none of it though. It says it has already provided millions of dollars worth of support and
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