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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
And yet virtually every other Western country has less expensive dairy products than Canada. One of the first things recent immigrants from Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands have remarked to me about living in Canada is the sticker shock of cheese prices here.
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That's because most Western Countries subsidize dairy production which depresses the retail price. The retail price of dairy is cheaper in Switzerland vs. Canada, yet the Swiss cost of production is about 2x what Canada's is, how do you think they make up that difference?
Personally I'd prefer to move to that model rather than Canada's current archaic system, but I don't kid myself into thinking that we wouldn't be paying a similar price overall, just some it would be through our tax dollars.