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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
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.
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I mean, they could throw money away. But if you want to spend it intelligently, it takes time. Look at the F35s. The process to buy them started 15 years ago, and it's going to be over a decade from signing the purchase agreement to having the fleet be fully operational.
Military spending-to-GDP has increased by 40% in the last decade after it was gutted in the 2000s and early 2010s. That represents the biggest increase in military spending post WWII.
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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.
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Where do you get the idea that Canada produces endless amounts of dairy and then just dumps it? The whole point of supply management is to have production roughly match the demand, while ensuring that we maintain the ability to produce dairy for national security reasons.
The alternative is to do what other countries do and subsidize dairy production, and that may bring in some efficiencies. But the cost of that is raising taxes to fund dairy costs instead of having consumers pay for it.