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We likely have quite differing views about supply management. I encourage people to really think about the whole picture and consider all the players in supply management before forming an opinion. This is a good discussion.
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Lets think about the whole picture. Eggs and milk are about 100% higher in price then they otherwise would be. Who benefits? A small group of producers with no incentive to become more efficient. Who loses? All other Canadians especially the poor where eggs and dairy, dietary staples, take up a larger share of household income.
Your argument that artificially higher prices leads to greater GDP and wealth can be continued to a reducto ad absurdum. If protecting industries makes us all wealthier why stop at cheese omelettes? Because it has nothing to do with economic growth instead about pandering to a politically influential industry and continuing a moronic status quo bias. The whole point of market economies is to make good cheaper, to become more efficient, and to reduce costs for consumers to be able to extend their money furthest.