Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu are meeting with canola groups Wednesday afternoon to discuss China's announcement that it will hit Canada with a 75.8 per cent tariff on the crop.
The ministers have a meeting scheduled with the Canola Council of Canada and the Canadian Canola Growers Association.
The new duties are scheduled to come into effect Thursday.
The canola industry is calling for swift action by Ottawa, warning Beijing is threatening a tariff so steep it would effectively seal off its $5-billion market to Canada.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner told a news conference earlier Wednesday that the tariffs were "completely avoidable" and require an immediate response from the federal government.
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