Once a success story, Canada’s pork industry faces a painful reckoning

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Open this photo in gallery: Pigs at the Meloporc farm in Saint-Thomas de Joliette, Que., on June 26, 2019.SEBASTIEN ST-JEAN/AFP/Getty Images The Canadian pork industry used to be an agri-food success story. Unshackled by the chains of supply management that protected Canada’s dairy and poultry industries from foreign competition but largely blocked their access to external markets, Canadian pork producers and processors bet heavily on globalization in recent years. Pork exports soared – especially to the United States, China and Japan – reaching almost $5-billion in 2021. Canada became the third-largest exporter of raw and frozen pork products, with the...