British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby said it was “absolutely inspiring” to see people intervening in the province and Canada to support local businesses in response to the Price threat of US President Donald Trump.
Eby made the comment during a visit to a safeguard place in Vancouver, where he highlighted efforts to stimulate local food production.
He says that Windset Farms based in Delta, British Columbia, concluded a partnership with BC Hydro last fall to extend its installation in order to become the largest greenhouse lit by LED supplied by renewable electricity in the west of North America.
The Prime Minister says Windset recently signed an agreement with safeguard foods, “moving American tomatoes” and giving residents of British Columbia to local products.
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Jamie Nelson with Save-on-Foods says that the company has more than 2,000 articles in Canada on its shelves identified with Canadian flags, and they are “really excited” to go ahead with the local purchasing effort.
Eby says that residents of British Columbia would soon begin to see more advertisements “buy British Columbia”, and The province has also launched a new website With a tool to help people buy local as well as the latest information on prices and the British Columbia.
The only sure thing about Trump is uncertainty, added Eby, and the government of British Columbia is “to do (its) better to diversify far from the United States in order to protect companies in British Columbia and consumers from everything that happens in the South”.
Asked about the reduction of obstacles to interprotrovincial trade, Eby told the press conference that the Minister of Economic Development Diana Gibson met over Canada to put pressure on a “mutual recognition agreement” which would mean that the products approved to sell in a Canadian jurisdiction would be authorized to others.
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