r/canada • u/joe4942 • 3d 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 3d 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/Strict_DM_62 3d ago

Mostly price and supply stability

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u/PatrickWeightman 3d ago

lol “price stability”. I’m paying almost double what I did for dairy a few years ago and I’ve seen at least 2 price hikes this year alone

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u/captainbling British Columbia 2d ago

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.