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Originally Posted by blankall
Pretty simple fix. Don't make the licenses transferable and increase the amount in proportion to the population every year. The intent was never to make the licenses themselves the asset.
Or better yet, do away with the quota system and just increase quality inspections. If that was truly the goal, it would make sense to limit the supply side by having very high standards for quality and production.
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Simple fix? I don't understand.
In Canada, the amount of milk/egg/chicken producers are allowed to produce (allocation) changes with the forecasting of demand. If demand decreases (like it suddenly did with the onset of COVID), then allocation goes down. If the board is anticipating increased Ice Cream consumption during the summer, allocation goes up for summer. This changes on a periodic basis and is revisited and reprojected a number of times per year.
I don't think you understand that having a local economy is important to Canada. This sector employs farmers, farm hands, plant workers, milk truck drivers, tech for dairy barns, milk processing and distribution networks, construction workers to build barns, feed truck drivers, feed mill employees, feed grain producers, silage processing equipment retail employees, maintenance employees, feed additive sales, etc.
These are jobs that Canadians rely on, and supply management is integral to ensuring that we have local and good quality production, as well as the economic benefits of it.