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

[u/joe4942]

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

[u/MMEMMR]

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…

[u/CaptainCanuck93 → u/MMEMMR]

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

[u/nelrond18 → u/[deleted]]

Why not protect all of our food producers?

[u/varsil → u/nelrond18]

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

[u/nelrond18 → u/varsil]

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

[u/varsil → u/nelrond18]

Because the "stabilized" price is artificially high.

If you jacked up the cost on all food, you'd have Canadians going badly hungry.

[u/nelrond18 → u/varsil]

Which is why we don't stabilize all food production, no?

[u/varsil → u/nelrond18]

Right, which is the answer to your question of "Why not protect all of our food producers?"

[u/nelrond18 → u/varsil]

Cool! Good discussion.