Canada’s supply management system for dairy, eggs, and poultry has become a political irritant, an economic lightning rod, and a recurring obstacle in our trade relationship with the United States.
For free-market conservatives, it is an obvious target: production quotas, price controls, and import restrictions offend basic principles of competition and consumer choice. For others, it is a necessary safeguard — one of the last policy tools ensuring Canada can feed itself in an increasingly unstable world.
(Incognito)
