Yes on both counts.

On our 300% tariff on dairy products, this means welfare mothers must pay 2 to 3 times as much as they should to buy milk for their children so that the millionaire dairy farmers subsidized by gutless governments for votes get even richer.

There were over 140,000 dairy farmers at the peak and there are now just 11,000 in Canada.  Most of them are millionaires whereas most of the schmucks forced to pay exorbitant prices for dairy products are not.

And yes, showing flexibility on this subsidy should be linked with demands for Americans to do the same with products like soft wood lumber which Bernier has suggested in his excellent letter.

It takes conservative principles and political courage to favour removal of these tariff subsidies and an open market, especially for a Quebec politician.

Bernier is clearly the real deal and the CPC could do much worse than Maxime as their/our leader. vs Trudeau 2.0 in 2019.

It would be principled vs pandering leadership.