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> Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain? Canada is extremely competitive on grain and potatoes
by SECProto 5y ago
> Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain?
Canada is extremely competitive on grain and potatoes (and lentils and oilseeds and ...). Supply management isn't needed if we're already competitive exporters of a given product.
- gruez 5y ago>Supply management isn't needed if we're already competitive exporters of a given product. sounds more like the real goal is protectionism rather than "having a stable supply of food"
- SECProto 5y agoYes, protecting important food suppliers from some foreign competition to ensure a stable supply of food is protectionism.
- hluska 5y agoAnd again, you’re being needlessly argumentative and couching it all in very poor communications skills. Your comments have had absolutely no value. Please stop - it’s low brow and boring.