From RCMP raids on Alberta egg farmers to a billion gallons of dumped milk, Canada’s supply management system is robbing consumers in plain sight.
Imagine living under a system of market control so stringent that federal police will swarm your home and arrest you if you try to sell eggs from your own farm. You don’t have to imagine it in Canada. Southern Alberta chicken farmer Henk Van Essen had multiple RCMP cruisers descend upon his property last year, and he was jailed for the crime of selling eggs without a government-issued quota.
