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For decades, one of the most powerful lobby groups in Ottawa has been the Dairy Farmers of Canada. Former finance minister Joe Oliver has even compared their tactics to the famously uncompromising U.S. gun lobby. “We’ll be taking supply management from their cold, dead hands,” Oliver wrote in 2016.

Now, for the first time, a leaked Dairy Farmers of Canada briefing binder provides a unique window into those tactics.

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The document, found at the Conservative Party’s national convention in Halifax, was made public over the weekend in a series of social media posts by delegate Matthew Bexte, a recent University of Calgary economics graduate who lives on his family’s farm near Vulcan, Alta.

In a statement, the Dairy Farmers of Canada told the National Post that the binder “was stolen from a delegate at the convention.” Bexte called the theft allegation “categorically untrue” and said he obtained the document from a fellow delegate who found it abandoned on the floor of the convention’s plenary hall.