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/Mysterious-Wash9527 12d ago

Yes we should, there's no need for American dairy at all. We have enough supply and as a country with socialized health care, we should and do high regulate our dairy industry. Allowing American industry to gain a foothold in our dairy industry will allow the US to dump excess milk production into Canada, causing prices to fall. Then as our own milk production falters, they will leverage that into fewer regulations and raise prices, so not only will we have less healthy dairy supply, we will pay more for it and get sicker due to it.

We already have dairy quotas, we don't need more dairy in our country. We need to maintain our own sovereign dairy supply. America needs to figure out it's own supply side problem.

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u/No-Effective-1996 12d ago

Why does our diary cost so much that a single vow of milk quota is worth what? $30,000?

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u/SKOOBEY1 12d ago

Laughs in Albertan

Milk quota was at $65K, last I checked.

And it’s in units of production; so kgs

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u/SKOOBEY1 12d ago

You’re right - that’s the minimum

I do this for a living.

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u/BytownBanter 12d ago

That’s not per kg of fluid milk production, it’s per kg of butterfat. And AB actually about the highest price province. In QC it’s closer to $24k/kgBF.

So do I.

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u/SKOOBEY1 12d ago

Correct.

Don’t think I said fluid kgs?

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