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Originally Posted by krynski
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.
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How does that justify a system where a limited number of licences are held by the very rich. The only way to acquire entry into the industry is to pay an existing license owner an absurd amount of money.
If you aren't using the license you should vacate it, not be able to sell it for hundreds of thousands. This has nothing to do with work done in the sector. All this does is limit those who intend to work hard from ever everything the industry, and limits the industry owners to the wealthy and corporations.