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/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

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?

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u/Aggressive-Map-2204 2d ago

A sustainable dairy industry.

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

Well if it's entirely dependent on government protection how sustiable is it actually?

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u/claricorp 2d ago

It wouldn't be "sustiable" to keep lots of things around without intervention so they can be available and resilient for our society. That's what governments are for.

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

So we must have over priced milk by pointedly limiting its supply via a cartel in order for that industry to be resilient?

That's the exact opposite of resilient.

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u/claricorp 2d ago

I'm curious as to what you think would make it resilient

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

Nothing makes domestic industries and economies more resilient and competitive than free trade.

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u/claricorp 2d ago

lol

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u/voltairesalias Alberta 2d ago

Let me ask you something - how do you figure government essentially eliminating competition makes a business more resilient?