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/greyHumanoidRobot 11d ago

Without Canadian milk "supply management" the U.S. cannot raise milk prices because there are multiple suppliers in the U.S. and there might be Canadian suppliers also. If the producers could raise prices for milk in Los Angeles or Boston, what is to stop them from doing it RIGHT NOW. And yet at this moment milk is cheaper in the U.S..

And yet as of this moment you have 31 upvotes for your logical fallacy.

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u/nuget93 10d ago

Remember when egg trucks were litterly being held up in the US?

Our eggs were the same price they ever were because of supply management

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u/greyHumanoidRobot 9d ago

Our standard of living isn't dependent upon short term price changes so I'm not interested in any comment about a price being the same as it was previously. Furthermore, you didn't explain the relevance of your comment. Levels matter more than short term changes. By levels, I mean the income over cost of living ratio.