50% tariffs on honey could actually mean lower prices for Canadians

Gregory has been beekeeping since he was a teenager, for more than 50 years. At his family-run operation, Interlake Honey Producers Ltd., in Fisher Branch, north of Winnipeg, he has roughly 1,000 colonies. He has exported comb honey to Japan — Canada’s second-largest export market at 44.1 per cent by value in 2025, versus the U.S.’s 52.9 per cent — and sees the greatest opportunities for growth in developing other export markets for Canadian honey, such as the Middle East, India and other countries in Asia. “We’re known for quality honey, and we just have to do more work to that end.”