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It makes Canadian dairy products rather expensive. Helping businesses collude to drive up prices and increase profits really should not be the role of governmen
by slavik81 9y ago
It makes Canadian dairy products rather expensive. Helping businesses collude to drive up prices and increase profits really should not be the role of government. Cartels are good for their members, but not for the rest of society.
See also, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/canadas-supply-management-system-for-dairy-is-no-longer-defensible/article36029788/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...
- criddell 9y ago> Helping businesses collude to drive up prices and increase profits really should not be the role of government. Well, that's one way to look at it. Another way is to say it stabilizes a strategically important sector and establishes a minimum wage for dairy farmers. I'd rather pay more for milk than have desperate farmers killing themselves at record rates. There's a societal cost to that as well.