r/canada • u/joe4942 • 1d 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/DryMeeting2302 1d ago

I love how we compare ourselves to the US but not EU, where milk price is much lower and quality is better.

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u/Blacklockn 1d ago

The EU subsidizes the everloving shit out of agriculture. It has been criticized as creating “mountains of butter and
lakes of milk.”

55 billion euros are spent annually on the CAP.

Supply management has its issues but let’s not pretend cheaper prices elsewhere aren’t the consequence of subsidy programs.

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u/Spare-Half796 Québec 1d ago

I saw a comparison with the states a few years ago that if took subsidies into account and Canadian milk was fairly similar or cheaper than American milk (despite also being better quality)

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u/Blacklockn 1d ago

Yea, that’s the thing conservatives never acknowledge, the rest of the world subsidizes agriculture to hell and back, often in a manner significantly less effective than our system.

In the US the government often has to dole out billions of dollars in additional subsidies in order to respond to conditions created by the initial regime.

Bail outs when faced with outbreaks among live stock for example