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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I've heard of stories of farmers pouring milk down drains etc. for Supply Management Quotas and to constrain the supply, etc. Don't know if it's hyperbole.
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Well, if your quota calls for x amount of liters being picked up everyday, and you have extra, what exactly should be done with it outside of pouring it down the drain? That is why there is a rather large black market for raw or even pasturized milk, and if you have a good relationship with a nearby dairy, they'll give you the milk for cash because they would be pouring it away anyways.
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Milk isn't the problem, it's the price of cheese and the stranglehold the supply management rules place on cheese imports. Canada probably has some of the worst cheese selection and prices of developed nations because of the protectionist dairy market. Only a small percentage of cheese can be imported every year from Europe and then it's priced incredibly highly.
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Plus, there are huge restrictions on bringing cream cheese from the US into Canada as well, which is completely bonkers.
SebC convinced me that supply management needs to go a few years ago, and the more research I do the crazier I think the system is.