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Prior to the pandemic, Canadians were already getting fleeced by this dubious arrangement. The Organization of Economic Co-Operation and Development says that Canada’s “market price support” averaged $2.9 billion per year between 2000 and 2017. Of this overcharge, $2.6 billion a year, or nearly 90 per cent, went to milk.

To put things in perspective, the infamous bread-fixing scandal that outraged consumers across the country allegedly overcharged customers by between $2.5 billion and $5 billion in total over the course of 14 years.

Now, things are about to get a lot worse, with Canada’s de facto dairy cartel announcing large, across-the-board price increases in 2022. The Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC), the Crown corporation that controls the price dairy farmers get for their milk, has recommended a stunning 8.4 per cent increase in the cost of wholesale milk — which will affect virtually every dairy product, from cheese to yogourt — and a staggering 12.4 per cent increase in the price of butter.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sab...he-cheese?s=03