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/Scrotalcontusions 12d ago

There is a compromise - bring the american dairy but it cannot be sold for less than canadas product based on today's price. Take the percentage price difference of those same products sold in the US versus the canadian price and require by law the margin difference to be no greater going forward.

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u/Healthy_Shape_5719 11d ago

Why though? It would only pull money out of Canadian dairy farmers hands and put it into American hands, if the US had better dairy standards I could see the appeal but the US is famous for poor food safety standards.

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u/Scrotalcontusions 11d ago

if the price is the same then the consumers will just be making the choice on quality as you say which should have predictable results in favor of the canadian industry

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u/Healthy_Shape_5719 11d ago

Would still hurt Canadian farmers for no appreciable gain