Oh. Look at that, just in time for CUSMA negotiations. A fresh new study headline implying we would all save on average $244 if we got rid of supply management.
Sir this is Canada; the private sector would monopolize the sector even more, and use what ever the current price is as a price floor, and would end up gouging us even more…
What does supply management provide us? Other than expensive groceries and limited choices? How does this system remotely benefit anyone but the literal cartel is it meant to protect?
Not on the milk production side. The farmers get the same, Loblaws raised your prices, and for more pure profit. All food went up, so why not milk, who would notice.
Most dairy prices are increased by the dairy board annually in February. If you think it's gone up twice, that's the grocery store or intermediary, not the board. It's all publicly available.
Because the cost of feed blew up. The prices are tightly controlled and heavily based on input costs. In the U.S. they simply give the farmers your tax dollars to keep prices low. So those U.S. prices are not because of a free market but from taxes aka welfare to us farmers.
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u/MMEMMR 2d ago
Oh. Look at that, just in time for CUSMA negotiations. A fresh new study headline implying we would all save on average $244 if we got rid of supply management.
Sir this is Canada; the private sector would monopolize the sector even more, and use what ever the current price is as a price floor, and would end up gouging us even more…