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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I don't understand our dairy supply management enough to make meaningful comments, but during COVID, the import restrictions sure made a lot more sense.
As soon as things go to ####, foreign countries will consume their own supply of various goods before exporting.
If we don't retain the production capacity to feed our own people, we're putting everyone at a huge risk. Again, not at all saying the way we do it is good or not, I don't know. A fully free market seems dangerous for food however, especially with the US having extremely lax food production regulations compared to the rest of the developed world. They will be able to kill our industry pretty quickly if we go full free trade on food.
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Which is why basically everywhere either has tariffs or subsidizes their dairy industry to keep it viable. There's no path to removing supply management without introducing heavy government subsidies.
I also think Curves is conflating a cultural issue (Canadians liking crappy food) with a policy one. The US has about the cheapest dairy in the industrialized world, but people still eat junk there including pre-grated "cheese", fake powdered parmesan, processed cheese singles, and thin yogurt with tons of sugar added to it.