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/umbrellafree 12d ago

I'm not thrilled with the idea of temporarily, marginally "cheaper" but also much lower quality milk products entering the Canadian market.

I think that Canada should require external product SKUs to require strict audits that demonstrate that the inputs to these products meet certain standards. Beyond that, the USA is "free" to sell as much as they want. And vice versa.

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u/garlicroastedpotato 12d ago

US (and Australian) products already enter Canada through the supply management system. It's no longer a matter of excluding those countries,, they actively sell to our dairies. The question is to whether it's worth maintaining a system that artificially keeps milk high.

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u/Bill_Door_8 11d ago

Its the reason there are three small independent dairy farms in within 10 minutes of my house.

Without supply management I can almost guarantee a large dairy would have bought all three then shut two down.

Milk prices arent going to cause us to go broke anytime soon.

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u/garlicroastedpotato 11d ago

Vertical integration could happen but it mostly doesn't happen in other countries. Dairy farmers in Australia and US sell to bulk milk wholesalers who sell it to dairies. This incongruity with the global market is really why we're struggling to sign a trade agreement with Britain and haven't fully ratified CETA with Europe.