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Leon Beauchemin's avatar

Nos 9000 producteurs laitiers dépenses plus de 205 millions de dollars en publicité , un marché assurés à nos frais puisqu'il sont payés selon les coûts de production .Si d'ici 2030 la demande de produits laitiers augmente de 3 à 5 fois . Mais d'ici là ils y aura sûrement des produits laitiers synthétique pour répondre à la demande .

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Alex G's avatar

Thanks for the timely reality check. I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to read your thoughts on how a hard dismantling of supply management would affect retail prices.

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Garth Jolly's avatar

“He understands, better than many Canadians…”

Great article. But to give Trump credit for having anything but an ignoramus’s understanding of any topic is pretty generous.

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Reckoning's avatar

I appreciate your education of the public on supply management, but this article seems to propose very weak half measures.

To me, the primary reason to get rid of supply management is lower prices for Canadians who have had their standard of living ground down under inflation and low economic growth. Providing internationally competitive prices for dairy products is an easy win to improve everyone’s standard of living.

There’s also no reason the government “has” to buy out quota at current prices. The government sets the rules. I don’t recall government paying for taxi medallions or paying that much to buy out tobacco farmers and their quota. Someone who buys quota buys it at economic risk and quota can be revoked at any time.

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Wade Meunier's avatar

Agreed. Ever since GATT in 1993 supply management has been at risk since it impairs free trade of our other sectors, like red meat. We sold our dairy then. Negotiating through both sides of our mouths. All that’s happened since is a massive escalation of quota prices. Risk is risk. The quota holders deserve some hit.

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Tony Ollenberger's avatar

You are definitely getting me more on board with your line of thinking the more I read. I'm no economist, but I feel like these are good ideas. My political mind tells me you're pushing a rope uphill.

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