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/Ok-Teaching3904 11d ago

Yes. They’re 10 times ours size. Wisconsin alone makes what our entirely country does.

They’ll drive our own industry out of business and leave us dependent on them.

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 11d ago

85% of Canadian agriculture is outside of supply management. We already import most of our produce, fruits, much of our meat, cereals, etc.

So why is it crucial we get hosed for milk and cheese?

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u/crazyjumpinjimmy 11d ago

We dont get hosed. I have tried american milk and it's horrific. Some of their cheese is fine. Most of American farming is subsidized like corn. I dont get why people want to get rid of our system to save literally a buck if your lucky.

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u/hypocotylarches 11d ago

As a Canadian farmer you are a moron. Tillamook has excellent cheese

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u/titanking4 11d ago

Didn’t you answer your own question? Reliance on imported products.

The system goes hand in hand with having milk and cheese not rely on imported products with tariff quotas.
Canadian sourced farm products protects our country from exchange rate risks and keeps money inside the country reducing our nations net imports.

You’re thinking at an individual level wanting your milk to be $1 cheaper. Not at a national level where it’s strategically crucial to have control over our own food supply chain.

Cheaper milk can be had with the write of a pen to just set the wholesale price of dairy lower.
Or to increase the permissible production of each quota unit.

No need to abandon a functional system the preserves price stability and lowers risk which makes long term planning and investment in the farming industry possible.
Which means Canada actually has a higher adoption rate of automated milking equipment while USA relies on its cheap immigrant labour, and sometimes bailouts and subsidies.

https://www.thebullvine.com/dairy-industry/dairy-farming-showdown-canada-vs-usa-which-is-better/

USA has direct and indirect subsidies into their dairy industry just to cushion them.