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If you want to buy an existing dairy farm's quota, you can. Similar to Taxi licenses in many places, no? I think most Canadians feel that the supply-side man
by allannienhuis 6y ago
If you want to buy an existing dairy farm's quota, you can. Similar to Taxi licenses in many places, no?
I think most Canadians feel that the supply-side management of dairy and some other food products works for us fairly well, and that the Taxi license system doesn't. I guess that means the reasons for them working well or not are something other than the concept of supply-side management?
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI think the perception that it works is more about the perception is that "milk" is a homogeneous category and the population doesn't much care that there isn't much diversity in it. Same goes for eggs. And the price is considered fair. When you go making your own homemade cheese or yogourt though, then you notice how painfully high our (consumer) milk prices are. And when you taste higher quality milk in European countries, and notice the lack of quality milk at reasonable prices on Canadian grocery store shelves, it starts to be a bit more frustrating.
- romanoderoma 6y agoHonestly in Europe we have the same quota system for milk. Quality here is not a function of the market being more free. It's a function of a better food production chain Instead of competing on prices many food products in Europe compete on quality and locality (small areas that produce some unique product of extremely high and renowned quality: Champagne in France, Parmigiano Reggiano in Italy, jamon serrano in Spain, etc. etc.)