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Dairy farmer turned Liberal MP vows to be voice for tariff-hit Quebec region
Gobeil says he will press Ottawa to protect supply management as U.S. tariff talks stall and his region faces pressure from aluminum and forestry losses.
Fjord was elected as a Liberal MP in an August 31 byelection, flipping a Conservative seat and contributing to a three-byelection sweep for the Liberals on the same day.
Gobeil campaigned mainly on protecting Canada's supply-management system for dairy, poultry, and eggs, which uses quotas and tariffs, backed by a federal law stopping trade deals from increasing import quotas or lowering tariffs in these sectors.
He vowed to represent Quebec's tariff-affected Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, which faces challenges in aluminum, forestry, and defense sectors, and plans to bring his farming experience to politics.
Gobeil is open to a larger government role if offered while slowly handing farming duties to his family.