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Depends on your definitions of 'industry' and 'the people'. Take for example the Canadian wine industry. There's international pressure for Canada to open up
by wmil 11y ago
Depends on your definitions of 'industry' and 'the people'.
Take for example the Canadian wine industry. There's international pressure for Canada to open up it's domestic wine market. In Ontario, the largest province, foreign wines can only be sold at government run liquor stores.
Opening up the domestic market is problematic, because apart from ice wine Ontario wine is awful. At any given price point Ontario reds are substantially worse than California reds.
Even if nothing happens, once the government starts openly negotiating to open the market the property value of vineyards will plummet. Farmers will be underwater on their mortgages and will have trouble getting insurance.
The government doesn't want to endanger people's livelihoods like that unless it's sure that the rest of the agreement is worth it.