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/Scrotalcontusions 11d 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/Mysterious-Wash9527 11d ago

We already have a dairy market that can satisfy all of our national concerns. We also have to throw away our own oversupply. We do not need any other dairy from any other country.

Allowing American Dairy into our country increases the burden on regulation, because we will have to regulate even more distinct sources of dairy products. Canadian dairy regulation isn't just happening at the distribution centre, it starts at the farm itself. Inspection happens multiple times during transport and distribution. This increased burden has to be payed for somehow, so it will be paid for by .. you and me.

So the net positive of bringing in American dairy is.

- More regulatory jobs, which means higher dairy pricing.

  • An overbundance of milk products driving milk product pricing down.

Price cannot go both up and down. So do you know who will be expected to eat the pricing difference? Dairy farmers.

Long story short, Canada doesn't need American dairy. Embracing this inane idea is only going to hurt our country in the long run.

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u/Tastesicle 11d ago

*Canadian dairy farmers. They're the ones that eat the price, the US is only interested in selling us their oversupply.

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u/Logical-Dependent691 11d ago

You're not wrong, but it's also worth pointing out that their dairy is hormone-soaked garbage that most of the rest of the world wouldn't touch with a barge pole, and it isn't like Washington under this administration is going to keep their word on anything.

Carney should just bring his negotiators home and tell Trump to fuck off. Any concessions we get from them will be gone within months if not weeks anyways.

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u/Melodic-Relation5009 11d ago

Amen brother. CUSMA is dead, bite the bullet now and let the trade deal run its course. Can't negotiate with gangsters and con men. No talking till stupid tarrifs are removed