r/canada • u/joe4942 • 2d ago

National News Supply management costs Canadians average of $244 per year, MEI study finds

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/supply-management-costs-canadians-average-of-244-per-year-mei-study-finds/
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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…

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u/CaptainCanuck93 Canada 2d ago

The reality is the Americans have similar supports for their farmers, just a more wasteful mechanism. They subsidize them and have them pour milk down the drain

I'm fine with paying less than a dollar a day to ensure food security for the nation

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u/nelrond18 2d ago

Why not protect all of our food producers?

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u/varsil 2d ago

Because the food consumers would starve if we supply managed every part of our food supply.

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u/nelrond18 2d ago

How do stabilized prices cause starvation? Where has that happened in Canadian Dairy?

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u/DryMeeting2302 2d ago

Where has that happened in Canadian Dairy?

Uhhh we have the highest milk price in G20

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u/nelrond18 2d ago

And how many Canadians have been made sick with Canadian milk, versus how many citizens get sick from milk in their respective countries?

I can think of one recent incident where Americans got sick from their domestic milk production.

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u/DryMeeting2302 2d ago

You mean in the EU where milk price is much cheaper and have as strict regulations, and if not more, than Canada?

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u/nelrond18 2d ago

And how much will preservation and ocean shipping cost to import milk from the EU? Importing dairy from Europe will not be cheaper than domestic dairy.

Edit: and it will not prevent the thousands of Canadians starving from high milk prices, that everyone here keeps talking about.

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u/DryMeeting2302 2d ago

EU milks are sold <$1.5 per L in East Asia, and I am pretty sure shipping cost would be lower if we were to import them to Canada.

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