It shouldn’t surprise anyone who financed this opinion poll. The questions are absolutely geared to reinforce the prevailing narrative. It’s not much different from “elections” in the Soviet Union in which the communist party candidate would get 98% of the votes.
92% of Canadians agree they feel confident in the food safety and animal welfare standards used in dairy, chicken, turkey and egg farming in Canada because of supply management. 94% of Canadians also prefer their dairy, eggs, chicken, and turkey products to be produced locally and in Canada under supply management.
“The survey was conducted with 2,000 Canadian adults from November 9 to 12, 2023. A random sample of panelists were invited to complete the survey from a set of partner panels based on the Lucid exchange platform. These partners are typically double opt-in survey panels, blended to manage out potential skews in the data from a single source.
The margin of error for a comparable probability-based random sample of the same size is +/- 2.19%, 19 times out of 20. ”
A fine amount of propaganda for 2000 selected respondents who gave them the answer they wanted to satisfy their client.
They also don’t provide the margin of error for their propaganda poll, while trying to obfuscate it using the claim that a probability based random sample gives them +/- 2.9%, 19 out of 20 times…
Oh, but that 20th time, JD. That 20th time…
“Let’s just not talk about that, shall we?”
“Strongest among women, older Canadians, and those in Atlantic Canada,”
If you wanted to know who they over sampled, it was the grey rinse set in Halifax.
Otherwise know as those that would still vote for Leisure Suit Larry.
What we used to call push polls. Designed to get the answers you want.
Concur.
Pollsters are no longer in the business of gauging opinion, they’re part of the media whose goal is forming opinions.
99 % are to stupid to realize we’re paying double or triple more than without supply management
“99 % are to stupid to realize we’re paying double or triple more than without supply management”
It’s triple, and the questions were obviously worded to avoid any reference to that fact (as Dennis had implied).
As soon as they mentioned “food safety”, I knew the fix was in….that’s the exact ‘argument’ that the dairy cartel themselves bring up any time they are challenged (yeah, like American dairy products *aren’t* safe?).
tbh, I’m not sure how I would have voted in this poll. I do believe that Canada should have an independent food supply chain. It’s not a matter of patriotism. It’s just that I want our food supply secured.
As for how that is achieved, I have my doubts on the current supply side, top-down management approach. It just makes our products more expensive to buy. I do believe in the free market, after all.
The current system does not make it safe or secure, it “manages” the market the same way a neighborhood syndicate makes sure nutin bad happens for a cut of the profits.
Where there used to be ten family farms on a block, it’s now one mega operation that leases or owns the rest of the farmland to feed their herd.
One of the dirty secrets about dairy subsidies is the minimum herd size you need to have to afford all the infrastructure and equipment to meet the safety requirements.
Oh and that you can only sell your product to an authorized company, no selling at the farm gate of that safe Canadian product is allowed under the threat of arrest and imprisonment.
This “safe” system of supply management was made mandatory under the first Trudeau.
Sorry I haven’t been more clear. I never meant to suggest that the current arrangement was safe or secure. I meant to say that we should have a system that would ensure our food supply is safe and secure.
I hope that fixed things for everyone.
A chicken in every pot leads to birdlines.
A chicken in every pot leads to a Turkey in Parliament.
Fixed.
Whatever you do, don’t let that evil Wisconsin butter into the country! Butter (and all) prices have gone through the roof under Biden. I can’t imagine what a pound of butter costs in Canada.
Costco Canada- Sale price $4.95 a pound up from $3.95 a pound in the time before Biden
$8.95 in some stores in our area, a low of $5.95.
Every dairy farmer I know came from Europe, especially Dutch. Lots and lots of Dutch. They don’t need the subsidies.
The rest of the farms are owned by Germans, Swiss, big cash crop operations or massive pig barns in Bruce and Perth counties. Not that there is anything wrong with that, the ones that actually live here are good people. And of course, the rest of the land is being taken over by the Mennonnites spreading out from Waterloo. You should see the way they are taking over west of Renfrew, north of Ottawa. Ask someone where they are from, Elmira, Gorrie, Atwood, Ripley.
They do need subsidies when you have to pay $80,000 for the quota to milk a single cow because of the subsidies. Head spinning?
$5 / lb Cdn on sale.
Well, there isn’t one sitting MP with the courage to call bullshit on this one.
Pol writing is an art and a highly predictable one. Let me write the questions, and I can give you a majority of people to agree to anything you want.
What is going on here is obvious. They know that PP is likely to form a very strong Conservative government after the next election. They know that the opposition will likely only be a rump of Bloc Quebecois. They also know that Canadians are very tired of the extortionate prices that the various agricultural monopolies charge for their products. Smashing the marketing boards is the single biggest step the federal government can take to reducing food prices after revoking the carbon tax.
So, they are desperately seeking for some ammunition to push back against PP doing unto them as Stephan Harper did to the Canadian Wheat Board in 2011.
“So, they are desperately seeking for some ammunition to push back against PP doing unto them as Stephan Harper did to the Canadian Wheat Board in 2011.”
He won’t though. He has already said that he supports the Canadian (read: Quebec) ‘supply management’ system.
The Western Standard disagrees with you. That isn’t what he said at all.
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/poilievre-says-he-wont-change-supply-management-in-agriculture/article_5857daff-5e3b-5b67-84f3-abfa5c291ce6.html
Read the article.
“Read the article.”
I’m sorry…did YOU read the article you linked to?
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Federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre says he has no plans to change Canada’s Soviet-style supply management of certain sections of Canada’s agriculture sector.
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Poilievre said he isn’t proposing to change current agriculture price and production controls which create artificially high prices by setting production quotas and large import taxes and prohibitions on imported dairy and other products.
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What part of that do you suppose means that Poilievre *doesn’t* support the current dairy oligopoly?
So he eliminates the carbon taxes and at the same time forces reductions in the marketing board set prices because of reduced costs and enforces cost savings on store shelves. Lower fuel costs and lower food costs put the lie that the carbon taxes are revenue neutral which gives him something to campaign on the following election, ie these are the costs now vrs what the costs would be under the libs. Lib media goes out of business and what is left reports the savings.
Ahh, one can dream.
Polls are accurate 19 times out of 20, or however that goes.
And then George Harrison wrote Taxman, wherein there was 1 for you, 19 for me.
Let me tell you how it will be….obladie oblada, life goes on bra…la la how the lies go on..etc.
ok, whiskey time
I’m willing to risk a 5 dollar block of cheese.. Supply management has us paying 50% more for no damned good reason..
As a reminder, how polls work:
https://youtu.be/6GSKwf4AIlI?si=j2KrHBq85fqFpDB5
The egg man at a colony asked me how much it would cost to import laying hens from the US. Dumbfounded, he asked me why the duty was 300%. “Because you guys demanded it” was my response.
They love the protection, but hate it when it comes back to bite them.
“They love the protection, but hate it when it comes back to bite* them.”
*peck
They got the result they paid very good money for.
Yes…because things are ALWAYS so much LESS EXPENSIVE…when the Government gets involved.
I grew up in farm country. And it is hard to get a chicken NOT to lay eggs, or for cows NOT to produce milk. But it is hard for a farmer to have to jump through the required hoops when some know-nothing bureaucrat gets involved in food production.
If we paid what food actually costs to produce…it would be less than a 3rd of what we are paying now. And that would still leave room for a nice profit for the farmer.
I only buy non quota food. If I’m going to be paying extra I want it to go to the black market and not the central planners.
CON-federation.
Designed by Eastern Elites to use the ROC as their bread basket..
Plundering Prairie Provincial coffers on a daily basis.
Monopolies controlled by said elites
Air Travel
Digital Comm
Dairy
+ Utter BS of Climate Change
+ Covid Naziism
+ trashing all Oil/Gas in the West
+ Every bit of WOKE BS known to mankind
Time for us in Ab & Sask to say…adios MOFO’s…and yes, we’ll take our share of CPP with us too, thank you kindly…ta ta
If not alone, I’d bet the Donald would welcome us warmly…oh, and he will win a landslide