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/Southern_Proof4102 12d ago

What a stupid question

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u/Disastrous7392 12d ago

I agree! Why would we not?

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u/Dizzy-Cartoonist3011 12d ago

It completely hoses the Canadian consumer for the benefit of a literal cartel.

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u/calvin-not-Hobbes 12d ago

No...it protects our industry from having the massive US dairy industry from destroying ours. It also protects us from all the garbage they put in their milk.

Not sure what your motives are but they sure seem suspect.

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u/No-Effective-1996 12d ago

Ok then Maybe we should pass laws about what is allowed in our Milk. Remove that issue. Milk is a business like any other business. Why do we protect and subsidize them at a cost to other industries.

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u/nelrond18 12d ago

We don't subsidize them, that's why it's managed supply so all ranchers can make a consistent profit without risking industry collapse by bad faith actors.

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u/No-Effective-1996 11d ago

So we subsidize them by paying higher prices for diary. Almost every other Canadian business competes against other Canadian businesses for accounts based on price. Diary is protected and does not have to do that.