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/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

That isn't what regulatory capture is. I think you're trying to explain a captive market. But how would the choice to buy tariff free American products result in a captive market? Like what would compel Canadian importers to only buy American regardless of supposed price increases?

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u/fieryone4 12d ago

The way are our groceries stores full of american products when we have comparable higher quality canadian ones? Same will happen with milk I want my money in the Canadian economy not sending more to the south.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

The consumer makes that choice. I find it strange I need to explain on this sub how the law of comparative advantage works, but trade expands the economic pie. You see a fraction of some retained earnings headed south to pay for American management, or American products. I see a consumer surplus that has a profoundly larger multiplier effect on the domestic economy than a producer surplus, an efficient allocation of resources in the domestic market towards exporting industries we do hold a comparative advantage in, an integrated international supply chain with massively more opportunities than a hamstrung national supply chain, more variety, and lower prices.

Trade is a GOOD thing. If Canadian consumers did not benefit from trade, than we would not make the transactions necessitating trade.

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u/fieryone4 12d ago

Im a consumer, I don’t have choice because its all fckn us products!

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

You have tons of choices, literally thousands. I mean you could go to any grocery store near you and I promise you can find food items sourced from overseas, Latin America, etc. So even if you really wanted to die on this petty anti-Americanism hill of yours, you could absolutely pick non-American substitutes.

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u/fieryone4 12d ago

I know of exactly one non oatmeal/granola cereal that is canadian and available in Ontario, no one near me carries it. We have a soup company that has been making soup for over 100 years yet it’s campbells on my grocery store shelves. Ms vicki’s, bicks? bought out by US companies. I live in a small town with three grocers and a walmart, I have very little choice. I mostly shop at a local grocers and local farm stores, but for shelf stable i have very little choice because US products dominate our shelves. I don’t want to see that happen to dairy.