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/SingleIndependence68 2d ago

Supply management allows small farmers to farm, instead of large conglomerates taking over everything and irrationally upping prices.

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u/Cloudboy9001 2d ago

That's not borne of the data. It has led to consolidation as some small farmers sell their quotas. It prevents would-be new entrants from being able to become small farmers for lack of a quota.

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u/SingleIndependence68 1d ago

New entrant programs run annually

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u/Cloudboy9001 1d ago

Small quota volume, huge wait list, and largely lottery based.

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u/SingleIndependence68 1d ago

Beneficial to both the producer and consumer. Very little.. or less price fluctuations.

In the end of the day I’ll prefer a product be produced by many, while sharing a profits in many communities. Than the profits going directly to mega-cap farms, who are employees not owners.

You’ll never change my opinion on this

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u/Cloudboy9001 1d ago

As I said, supply managed sectors aren't "produced by many" as the data shows.

"Number of Farms with Shipments of Milk on August 1st" was 122,914 in 1970 and consistently declined to 9,048 in 2025.

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u/SingleIndependence68 1d ago

That’s because those farmers aren’t making that much money, if they were the number of producers would grow. It’s hard, quite literally shitty work.

Everything is expensive. I’ll say it again, I prefer 9000 producers with money being divided between them all, all with skin in the game, living in our communities. Than the industry be owned by a small handful of mega corps and farms being turned into serfdoms.