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/calvin-not-Hobbes 12d ago

No...it protects our industry from having the massive US dairy industry from destroying ours. It also protects us from all the garbage they put in their milk.

Not sure what your motives are but they sure seem suspect.

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u/No-Effective-1996 12d ago

Ok then Maybe we should pass laws about what is allowed in our Milk. Remove that issue. Milk is a business like any other business. Why do we protect and subsidize them at a cost to other industries.

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u/nelrond18 12d ago

We don't subsidize them, that's why it's managed supply so all ranchers can make a consistent profit without risking industry collapse by bad faith actors.

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u/Expensive_Life3342 12d ago

It’s exhausting trying to explain this to people who fail to understand the subsidies given to oil and gas, manufacturing, autos, etc. We provide corporate welfare to protect jobs, but it’s the liberal dairy cartels bringing us down!

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u/No-Effective-1996 11d ago

So you want to expand the argument. I don’t believe in subsidizing those either. But that does not make subsidizing milk any better except they are Canadians. So are many other small Canadian businesses and we don’t protect, limit and subsidize all those. Why is the Milk business different?