Milk Mafia?

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How to win friends and influence people the Canadian dairy edition.

They’re pretty touchy about a feed supplement they claim they hardly use. 🤔

32 Replies to “Milk Mafia?”

  2. Another very good reason to leave this sick and demented Country.
    MONOPOLIES. And strangely enough, one that allows Quebeceurs to profit from our large English speaking majority….just another form of Backsheesh like equalization.

    Maverick – Wild Rose will get our votes.

    1. You’re just jealous that both Ontario and Quebec each have over 10x more head of dairy cows than Alberta does. Also, Ontario and Quebec herds are smaller. Alberta is also a big fan of supply management, you just get your panties in a knot whenever someone else makes a greater profit than you do.

      1. Well it has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with imbalance within the country. What your comment really shows is how biased the quota system is to Alberta (as usual). Quebec has over 60,000 animals per million of its population. Ontario has 35,000. The average for all of Canada is 38,500. Alberta has 28,500.

        Just another example of a Quebec sop.

        1. LOL. “Imbalance”. So, Alberta’s beef industry is a threat to other provinces, or its energy sector, because of this “imbalance”? Gimme a break.

          1. Canadians are forced to pay excessive prices to buy Canadian dairy products. Diary farmers (large majority of them from Ontario and Quebec) have a cartel/monopoly on these products (a whole 3% of the market is set aside for imports).

            I wonder how you would feel if you were forced to buy all of your oil and natural gas from Alberta at 150-200% of world energy prices?

      2. No…? where the Fk do you get that idea.?? CBC.?

        I’m pissed with our BULLSHIT supply managment system for one reason….

        Milk in Calgary is ~5.50+ per gallon jug worth
        Milk in Wausau, WIS is ~1.89 per gallon jug worth

        Math is hard I know
        …..and spare me the Utter Disinformation & plain ole HORSE SHIT spewed about American Dairy products. Lived/worked down there and its as good as any milk ANYWHERE.

    2. 89-percent higher cost increase in dairy product prices. So that 2-liter jug of milk I bought for $4 should only cost $2.11 and that block of cheese for $14 should only cost $7.41. How many thousands of dollars has that cost my family and families of all other Canadians over the years? Makes no wonder why dairy is so cheap south of the border.

      Also funny how Loblaws was caught for bread price fixing and the lawyers get rich on a lawsuit; but my loaf of bread still costs $2.50 to $3.50 just like it has for the past 20 years.

      Fuck Loblaws and fuck the Canadian dairy industry.

      1. I repeat open the fucking border so that consumers can vote with their dollars.

        Looked at my butter wrapper from Costco BC-Natrel (sounds like natural, except it ain’t) made by Agropur (again with the fake pure) made by Co-Operative Longeuil, Quebec. Various logo’s -Dairy farmers of Canada, quality milk and a maple leaf with Canada 1 inside it, implying first quality. The butter is shit, and will not spread.

        I want US butter, milk, ice cream, sour cream-enough of this Canaduh shit.

        1. Mmmmm, love that pure Canadian palm oil*.

          * Only a few hundreds-of-thousands of acres of rainforest was flattened to make feed a little cheaper for Canadian dairy farmers.

      1. “The impact should come as no surprise: the system that was meant to protect the family dairy farm has led to its withering away. In 1967, Canada had 174,139 dairy farms. By 2017, there were 10,951. These farms have larger herds than ever before, are worth on average $3.8 million (2015), and generate a healthy income ($153,611 in 2014).”
        Alberta has the largest average herd size in Canada, and a higher quota price then Ontario.

          1. it equates to less farmers/cow, and more monopolistic practices. Who cares how many cows? So what if a province has more cows than another? Alberta has more beef cows, you don’t here Quebec and Ontario whining about it.

        2. Who gives a crap how many cows a farmer has, and why on Earth would they?

          And what business is it of the government anyway?

          People need to butt out of each other’s business.

    1. L – “Could’ve had Max” may go viral, yet.

      Will the Dairy Cartel do for the C.P.C. under O’Toole, what it did for them under Scheer?
      “Don’t step in the cow pie !” …. too late. Two un-inspirational leaders in a row. Anyone in
      the CPC caucus with a with a political compass ?
      ————————————————————————————————————————————–
      Since becoming CPC leader, the respected Angus Reid survey shows O’Toole has gained no new supporters, while half of those who were previously undecided have now formed a negative opinion.

      https://spencerfernando.com/2021/02/24/survey-shows-erin-otooles-approval-worsening/

  5. Professor Charlevoix is a fairly good guy, a political moderate (with a few free market leanings), who has marketed himself well. He sat on the research advisory board of the conservative Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, before the think tank was folded into the Fraser Institute. Yet he does interviews with the establishment media.

    He teaches at the sewer called Dalhousie University. I wonder how long before he is canceled?

  6. Dairy farmers in Ontario and Quebec are by necessity not like ordinary farmers. You have to be a millionaire just to buy a production quota because of the ridiculous licensing scheme, (a scheme demanded decades ago by farmers who were successful at the time), so the industry has evolved to reward the most ruthless and predatory farmers while destroying the rest.

    1. The quotas are heavily in Quebec. What a big surprise, eh? In fact, in Quebec, they have 60,000 animals per million of Quebec population. Ontario has about 35,000. Alberta has 28,500.

      1. No count how many dairy farms per capita, and average income of these farms. Quebec and Ontario have more farmers, and each farm is smaller than Alberta farms by a factor of 2+, in short, Ontario and Quebec have less of a monopolistic dairy industry than Alberta, with more farmers in the market, with smaller farms, and lower profits/farm than Alberta, all the while with lower quota prices in Ontario, at least.

      1. Quota prices are higher in Alberta because our farmers want to expand but Quebec has a grip on the market so they bid up available market share in Alberta. Also Alberta has low taxes allowing profits to be re-invested and people can make a lot of cash with high paying jobs to get a good start. I can never understand why some province doesn’t just crash the system by pulling out.

        Alberta 11.64% pop 8.5% milk – under-represented .73
        Sask 3.1% pop 3% milk – under-represented .97
        Ontario 38.77% pop 32.9% milk – under-represented .85
        Quebec 22.56% pop 36.7% milk – over-represented 1.63

        2. Quebec 22.56% pop 36.7% milk – over-represented 1.63
          Even in Quebec where the dairy cartel has had free reign (until a few years ago the sale of margarine dyed to look like butter was against the law) the public has become skeptical about the industry. They see ever increasing prices and declining consumption.
          Canada’s milk consumption continues to decline with the latest numbers at 188kg/capita/yr. compare to 255kg/capita/year in the US.
          An industry that snatches its products out of the mouths of those who already can’t afford them is an industry headed for trouble.

      2. Quota prices in Ontario are capped by the government as well whereas in AB they are not. If it was not for this cap, they would be very similar. A result of this cap is that Ontario farmland prices are the highest in North America especially in dairy heavy regions like Oxford county as a result of quota money getting capitalized in land instead of the quota itself.

  7. So there’s a “stiffening” agent in Canadian butter, eh?

    Then how about we get Pinky NO-tool and his caucus on a pound-a-day diet?

  9. Here is a winning rallying cry for the Invisible O’Toole:

    Free the cows! Free the chickens! Free the eggs! Free the turkeys!

    After all, they are all free under President Bai Den, the man-crush of our Supreme Leader.

    1. Imagine if we forced every Canadian province to buy all of its oil and natural gas from Canadian sources, and at a steep premium to market prices?
      Set up a “Canadian Oil & Gas Marketing Board”, if you will.
      What?
      You don’t like paying $2.75/litre for gasoline?
      Why do you hate poor, honest Newfoundland roughnecks, or Saskatchewan geologists?

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