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Originally Posted by kermitology
Dairy tariffs are in place due to supply management. It's there to protect Canadian production, maintain healthy farming practices, and to ensure we don't have wild price fluctuations.
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Understood I just see the US POV on it. If I was them, it’d be annoying as well. Same as Canadas slow playing / reluctance to spend to the 2% GDP military thing. Nobody can answer (very well) why Canada has to take 10 yrs to get to a commitment it made several years ago. I believe that Canadas position on this is weak. “It takes a long time for procurement or this or that” are very Canadian “we can’t do anything anymore” replies (kinda our motto over the last few years). For example- if I was the US I’d be like okay fine, then pay us the delta to keep us whole on your spending if you can’t actually spend in a military sense to your commitment.
Anyway, maybe the answer is that it doesn’t make sense to produce endless amounts of milk / dairy just to dump most of it out and waste it. Maybe a better use of those farmers / people’s time is to go off and harvest other more in demand resources rather than artificially create a supply / demand imbalance just to keep a few farmers that vote for you employed. If the issue is these people need jobs / businesses / livelihoods I completely understand that but last I checked Quebec has a ####load of other resources and things to go do from an economic perspective.
The above is the same argument lefties made for coal and oil and gas workers as they were thinking we should just phase out energy jobs.m due to climate change. The difference being these jobs we’re supplying an in demand product as evidenced by price not artificially wasting oil and gas or coal to prop up price.
Sorry maybe I don’t understand the situation very well as admittedly I’m not overly familiar on the dairy subject this is just my 2c interpretation of it from a high level.