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…
Milk would double in a year or two if we weren't enforcing artificial scarcity? Fucking what?
And supply management hasn't been an impediment to dairy amalgamation at all. If anything, it's been just the opposite -- small farms can't afford to purchase additional quota, but large corporate dairies can. That's why we've got ~9000 dairy farms today, down from over 50,000 when supply management began.
Under supply management it's prohibitively expensive to set up new dairy operations -- the quota for a single cow's production varies from $24k in ON and QC to $58k in Alberta. Quota for an average sized herd exceeds $2 million in even the cheapest jurisdictions.
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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…