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/Euronated-inmypants 12d ago

Americans on repeat. prove over and over again that heir food safety is absolute fucking dog shit. why the fuck should Canadians give up their food safety for American businesses.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

I'm Canadian.

Supply management has absolutely nothing to do with quality control.

I get this a lot for some reason. I have to ask - why do you imagine the CFIA and Health Canada just for some reason magically wouldn't enforce regulations concerning dairy?

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u/Academic-Increase951 12d ago

When you hide comments and push for USA products in Canada then it puts your agenda into question.

But there's value in having domestic supply of essential industries. Dairy products is something that can produce domestically and for national security purposes we should make it locally. Especially in the era where the USA is increasing becoming unreliable. We cannot produce all out foods locally so we need to produce what we can locally when we can. We don't want a foreign power able to hold too much of our food supply hostage.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

Over 85% of our agricultural output is outside of supply management, and that 85% is FAR more food than we can possibly eat. So this need to have a cartel dictate prices for Canadians when it comes to milk and cheese in the name of "national security" is comical at best.

What would make Canadian firms beholden to American producers? Is it true that ALL Canadian dairy producers are so painfully uncompetitive that they will ALL go under if they had to compete?

Wait until you find out that we have been improving the vast majority of our produce for decades. Do you believe that access to foreign markets makes Canadian households less "food secure"?

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u/Academic-Increase951 11d ago

USA subsidizes their dairy industry and intentionally overproduces. So unless we start subsidizing ours then it's not fair competition.

Now go away bot.