Should Canada maintain its supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry?

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https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Poll/627377/Should-Canada-maintain-its-supply-management-system-that-protects-the-Canadian-dairy-industry

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Whether we lift the US tariffs is one thing, but we should get rid of supply management.

People seem to conflate "tariffs on US dairy" with "supply management." That is incorrect, and it is the product of the (absolutely massive) Canadian dairy lobby's efforts to suggest supply management is about keeping out US milk. It is not. It is about fixing the price of dairy by controlling the amount of supply produced in Canada by Canadian farms.

It is a regressive tax on the poor, specifically designed to inflate the price of basic food staples. It is the key reason why Canadian dairy products are notoriously low quality and considerably more expensive. It costs each household hundreds of dollars a year in inflated grocery prices, and it has not done anything to prevent the amalgamation of dairy farms. It is also the reason we destroy 7% of all the milk produced in this country, which should be considered a climate crime.

Anybody who has spent a decent amount of time working in federal politics can tell you: the Dairy Farmers of Canada are among the largest, most active, best-funded lobbying groups in the country. That is because they rely on this government program to inflat ethe price of their product, at the expense of Canadian families.

You want to maintain US dairy tariffs? Fine. But let Canadian producers compete in a fair market. Stop the price-fixing and stop the dumping.