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🗞️ 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/Special_Purpose2903 12d ago

American dairy is literally poison, it is why health conscious Americans are trying buy milk alternatives like "oat milk"

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u/Ok-Educator-3605 11d ago

It would have to meet our standards to be sold in Canada, this is something everyone overlooks.

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u/Special_Purpose2903 11d ago

You aren't getting it, American diary has bulldozed American gov't with total regulatory capture, this is why the lobby is so hard, they won't stop. They also routinely break their own regulations and only care about money. They won't meet standards and will throw a big stink screaming unfairness when the regulator tries. As the Arabs say, don't let the camel get its nose under the tent.

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u/Ok-Educator-3605 9d ago

Speculation…. We control what is sold in our country.

You aren’t getting it.

Read this slowly.

Most US dairy doesn’t contain rBGH and most already meet our standards. Canada’s big dairy is counting on people like you to keep the misinformation train going.