Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?
This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.
The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.
If you have 301 birds and selling fresh eggs that don’t taste like soy you’re trying to kill grandma.
If you don’t feed cows an unnatural diet and want normal milk you’re trying to spread polio.
If your work for the government like a lot of farmers do, they’re all going to laugh at you!
Farmers are glorified civil servants. The difference is that they foot a lot of the expenses. That is, when they’re not receiving “aid” (that comes with umpteen strings attached).
A joke that used to circulate around the community was:
Q: Why is there an “S” at the end of “AIDS”?
A: So farmers don’t apply for it
Another Communist pile of BS.
“Supply Management”. aka Monopolies
We have a few of them – Wholly owned by the Laurentien Elite..
Dairy
Air Travel
Telecommunications
(& a 4th: Political Power)
Canadians get Massively BONED on all 4
The dairy lobby is the Canadian equivalent to the NRA in relative size and scope. The Conservatives are fatally compromise libertarians on almost all issues. The more support they get from the mindless mushy middle, the less ideological they become. The only thing that could hurt them now is the resurgence of Mad Max but the desperation to replace the Spawn/Singh/bloc regime will prevent that. IOW, power over principle is still the guiding paradigm and it only gets worse the closer you get to end stage democracy in which we are now ensconced
DJT said yesterday in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club that he was the one who’d included the stipulation to look at the USMCA in 2026 and vehicles would be on the table, I know Canada’s agri protection racket is going to be on the agenda as well, as a bargaining tool to bring back auto manufacturing to the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2c5SETIIU
I don’t normally advocate for the Canadian Senate, and if it is only to be used as a rubber stamp for the Commons, then it’s without a use. I doubt Canadians have it in them to push for Senate reform, especially if it would make the Senate equal between all provinces as that would greatly reduce its weight amongst the Atlantic provinces.
It’s still against the law for private citizens in PEI to raise turkeys, so at least Canadians can sleep well at night knowing they have “some protection” from those who simply do what they want.
These agri marketing boards were brought in during war time so people collectively had enough to eat?
Is the war over? A glance at Canada’s military suggests the war has long been over. Perhaps all legislation in tier 2 Canada should only be passed with a sunset clause as undoing any of it is a major undertaking.
Not wartime in the case of the Dairy Marketing Board and national milk quotas. This was introduced by Pierre Trudeau and implemented in 1972. It was a gimmick to try to ensure more Quebec rural vote for the 1972 election.
I know: Pierre Trudeau; you can’t hate him enough.
I lump war rationing in with marketing boards… I know they’re not the same yet still I persist.
Pierre kissed my mom on her cheek at Regina’s Victoria Park in the 1972 election campaign… eventually mom got cancer though she survived it, but the shame remains. When the National Energy Program arrived in Canada, I told her to put some special cream on it so she wouldn’t get cancer, she laughed, dad didn’t at all…
https://www.producer.com/farmliving/canadians-living-with-rationing-in-wartime/
Supply management may not be a good idea, but these trade agreements are for retards. Ricardo retardo.
Most of these comments are ignorant of the historical reality of farm marketing in Canada. These sectors choose supply management as their produce have short-term freshness compared to beef and pork. The buyers played one province against the other, specifically Quebec versus Ontario. Does the current system need improvement or change? Of course. The processing and grocery industry would relish the chance to make farmers even greater serfs.