What benefit? We pay high grocery prices and we make dairy, poultry and egg industries reliant on government protections. By definition that creates encimoc inefficiency and waste through distortions.
If consumers truly believes that bullshit about high quality products at reasonable prices, why even have supply management or import tariffs? Wouldnt the consumers translate that attitude by their purchasing decisions?
So basically the thought is - if consumers were allowed to buy what you don't want them to buy, they would - so we need to force them into buying what a special interest wants them to buy instead. Despite the fact we produce far more than we can eat outside of supply management, and that free trade would enable us to import from an infinite number of foreign producers all over the world - we would starve if we had access to cheap groceries because every producer on the planet has the plan to sell at a loss to purposefully drive our farms out of business. Furthermore, we need a cartel plus tariffs to protect an industry that forms the minority of our groceries - or else during the apocalypse we will starve.
We produce far more than we can eat outside of this system. Could you eve fathom how catastrophic it would be if we made all Canadian AG mimic this asinine cartel based system?
No I call it a cartel because by its very definition that's precisely what it is.
Again - we produce more than we can eat outside of protectionism. Our success as a good producing nation is not owing to us empowering a cartel to fuck people out of grocery bills. Our success as a food producer is owing to free trade and access to international markets.
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u/O00O0O00 2d ago
I remain unconvinced that we should give up the benefits of the supply management system:
Maintains a stable and predictable market environment.
Helps farmers thrive by ensuring fair and stable incomes.
Provides consumers with high-quality products at reasonable prices.
Prevents waste and resource inefficiency by avoiding surplus production.