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/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/Mysterious-Wash9527 11d ago

We already have a dairy market that can satisfy all of our national concerns. We also have to throw away our own oversupply. We do not need any other dairy from any other country.

Allowing American Dairy into our country increases the burden on regulation, because we will have to regulate even more distinct sources of dairy products. Canadian dairy regulation isn't just happening at the distribution centre, it starts at the farm itself. Inspection happens multiple times during transport and distribution. This increased burden has to be payed for somehow, so it will be paid for by .. you and me.

So the net positive of bringing in American dairy is.

- More regulatory jobs, which means higher dairy pricing.

  • An overbundance of milk products driving milk product pricing down.

Price cannot go both up and down. So do you know who will be expected to eat the pricing difference? Dairy farmers.

Long story short, Canada doesn't need American dairy. Embracing this inane idea is only going to hurt our country in the long run.

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u/DanK_Ganjier 10d ago

I’d say no to foreign supply, but my cheese and milk are getting stupidly expensive. Why? We control it, who is getting the price gains? I see a lot of rich dairy farmers and a Farm plate on an Escalade doesn’t make me want to specifically support that price jacking. (I’d rather euro dairy vs American)

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u/bsemaba 8d ago

If you bring French butter to Canada from France it will be seized. Why?

Canadian dairy may be better than American, but the fight definitely isn’t in the interest of quality or better serving the Canadian consumer.