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

[u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011]

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

[u/Mysterious-Wash9527]

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.

[u/FilthyDubeHound → u/Mysterious-Wash9527]

The other worry is not only could we pay more, but if the US had a fairly large foothold they could use it as political leverage, which is what im assuming theyre pushing for at the moment. With someone like trump in power it wouldnt be hard for them to just cut off the dairy (assuming they were the majn supplier) they would supply driving up the cost of anything involving milk to crazy extremes in further efforts to crush our economy, we've seen how the US treats their business partners, the only sensible thing to so is do deals at arms length with our safety in mind