Moe says province, federal government working together to defend canola industry
September 29, 2025, 9:22 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Premier Scott Moe was in Moosomin on Thursday, and was asked what some of the next steps are in tackling the issue of canola prices in Saskatchewan.
“Parliamentary Secretary Kody Blois has said there would be three ministers on the ground in China that continue to engage, and that’s a good next step,” said Moe.
“I think we saw one of the next steps yesterday when the Prime Minister of Canada had a meeting with the President of China yet again in New York, and it looks like there will be a meeting between President Xi Jinping and our Prime Minister some time in the future. That’s where it’s going to get settled, and I’ve always said it isn’t going to be Premier Moe or any other premier sitting down with the president of China, it needs to be a nation-to-nation agreement.
“I think there is a path and an avenue for us to find some resolution with China. However, the bigger, broader, and our largest trading partner continues to be the United States of America, and all of these conversations, although not directly connected, have connections, and we need to continue to work hard in Washington D.C. We’re doing what we can to support the Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who has taken up residence in D.C. to carry on discussions with Secretary Howard Lutnick, so there is a lot going on.
“We very much have to stay focused on what matters to Canada, Canadians, and our Canadian economy. For us in Saskatchewan it’s all about market access.
Low-tariff, zero-tariff market access. Our largest trading partners are the U.S. and China. We’ve been fortunate in diversifying to a number of other markets that are now billion dollar markets for us such as Mexico, Japan, and South Korea is an increasing market, the European Union is an increasing market, India is an increasing market. We’re maybe in a little bit stronger position than other provinces, but we need that tariff-free market access, in particular to the the U.S. and China, so those are priorities for us right now.
“And you are seeing something new from this premier and this government where we are working alongside supporting the federal government and getting us to that point.
“Over the last 10 years there has been a feeling by myself and many industries and people working in places like Moosomin, Saskatchewan that there has been a number of things that have been done to us, to the industries that are employing people and creating wealth in our communities, by our federal government and prime minister.
“Today that has changed to some degree where we have a number of things that are being done to our nation of Canada in the way of market access to the United States, market access to China and elsewhere by other foreign players, so this is a time for us to come together as Canadians at various levels of Canadian governance to defend Canadian interests, all of them, including those in Saskatchewan, including the canola industry.”
