21 Replies to “Supply Management- Great Success!”

  2. I’ve always thought that the answer to Canada’s supply management system is to shift the entire quota system to the provincial level. If provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan decide that their quota system will be no quotas then that should be their prerogative, as long as the product stays in free market provinces. Let free markets and supply management go head to head and see which system works better.

    1. But that doesn’t meet the name or intent. Cental planning. Of benefit to the central electorate. Not those mouth breathing inbred useless mules for the economy from western Canada. No, far better to give Quebec 60% of the cheese ratio… Oops, supply, in exchange for their votes.

  6. So the system designed to keep the price high now can’t sustain enough supply to meet demand.
    Doesn’t sound like a flaw of socialism more like a feature

  7. This goes back a few years before the Trump tariffs. Production allocations were lowered back in 2023. That was a reflection on the market at the time. And yes, it was an effort to keep the price artificially high by avoiding oversupply. Then comes the “mysterious” avian flu. Then comes the “mysterious” disease effecting Mexican beef cattle. Then comes inflation.

    As a result of the higher red meat costs, people switched to the presumably cheaper chicken. Except, Canada’s Chicken Farmer Cartel had set chicken to a higher cost via playing with supply vs. demand. Hence, no reserve supply. THEN, when the Canadian chicken processors sent up an SOS to the government asking for immediate permits to import chicken from the US, Canadian officials sat on the request (presumably as a negotiation tactic relative to the then implemented tariffs).

    You have spiteful 12 year olds running your agri. oversight, and meddling with capitalism because apparently someone possesses a crystal ball that tells the future….poorly.

    And, here we are today.

    1. We have spiteful 12 year olds running government, and spiteful 8 year olds re-electing them. Shithole.

  9. Health Canada, recently announced allowing “cloned meat” to be sold in the stores without any labeling to indicate it is Franken-meat, so maybe cloned Chicken is next. Oh, and the CFIA is doing their part by killing poultry as fast as it can to deplete the food supply chain & get those prices up. They want us eating the bugs, doncha know.
    Elbow’s up.

    1. Unless I misinterpret the news, to me it simply means the animalsare clones. Cloning is nothing new or sinister. As I recall Dolly was the sheep that was cloned And that was quite a long time ago. Until recently cloning has been too expensive for production animals. There’s no genetic modification although there might be some interest in drugs involved implanting the embryos. Rather than modifying genetics, the idea of cloning is to exploit existing genetics of superior individuals and reproduce them enmass.

      In my opinion, making a fuss about it diminishes the credibility of the people who get excited unless their concerns have to do with animal rights or some other philosophical matter.

  10. There’s an actual market for people to clone their pets. Average cost is about $50k. I remember reading about it about a year ago. The company was ViaGen. I remember that much.

    There was something like a five or six month waiting list.

    1. Good question! I know that I expect the answer to be something like a champion today would not have shown 10 years ago, but I’m in no way associated with that world.

  13. Bureaucrats only approving 10% of what was asked for are interfering in the market and purposely raising chicken prices. They are the enemy.

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