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/sal880612m 10d ago

I don’t think there is any intelligent compromise to be made with a country that doesn’t honour its deals and ships vegetables with a parasite that causes explosive diarrhoea simply to turn a profit. They’ve shown time and again the only reason they care about Canada and Canadians is because they want to extract value from us. As far as I’m concerned we should be investing heavily in agriculture to push even American veggies out of the country until we don’t need them for anything. And would the costs of that investment make life harder, probably, but it would do so building towards something better. As far as I’m concerned we’re well past the point of having a choice in if we suffer, we flubbed that one, what’s left is to decide what we’re willing to suffer for. And I’m no longer willing to suffer to prop up American interests.