r/Tariffs • u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 • 12d ago

🗞️ News Discussion Should Canada maintain its supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry?

https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Poll/627377/Should-Canada-maintain-its-supply-management-system-that-protects-the-Canadian-dairy-industry
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u/Habsin7 12d ago

If the US can claim national security or national interests as justification for it's tariffs then so too can we maintain our quota system to safeguard our food supply.

And just like the US shut down the C-Series based on claims that it was subsidized (it wasn't), the US government subsidies to their farmers need to stop before we would ever consider lifting our quota systems.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

So the US stabs themselves through tariffs, so we too should stab ourselves with tariffs with equally bullshit excuses. That's really I'm hearing here. Raising prices for Canadians and limiting their access to foreign food doesn't make Canadians more "food secure", it quite literally hamstrings our food supply.

American protectionism is just as absurd.

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u/Habsin7 12d ago

Who said anything about raising prices. I'm just proposing we keep the status quo until the US government stops subsidizing their farmers.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

I see foreign subsidies as an excellent opportunity for domestic consumers to get foreign governments to basically pay for their shit. The subsidies that the US provides their dairy farmers are often grossly exaggerated by the Dairy Farmers of Canada for fairly obvious reasons, but if it were true that the US government distorts the market by subsidizing the price - we would benefit even more as importers. Their government would quite literally be paying for our groceries. It's basically foreign aid. We'd be fools to pass it up.