Backing a dairy cartel is not standing up for Canadians: Selley

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How do you call Canadian political leaders in the Trump era, which seems to have put their interests “leading” in Canada-US relations?

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It depends on the province and on its special interests. If you are Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith and your particular interest is oil and gas, then you really tend to it—“Our provinces no longer agree to subsidize other big provinces that are fully capable of funding themselves,” she said last month—you are called traitors and quirks.

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If you are François Legault or any other Quebec politician, insist that hydraulics must be the sacred faction in trade discussions, because Smith insists that oil must be, and anyone outside Quebec may even notice it. (Since then, Legault has eased his position in utilizing the price of water and electricity and even restricting exports.)

If you are Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford and you wrap yourself up on the flag and try to protect critical industries more subtly than Smith (in case manufacturing in Ontario, especially in automatic manufacturing), you might even be called the “Captain Canada”, launching in international media!

So, what about Mark Carney after this week?

“Supply management is part of our economic sovereignty,” Carney (who is both prime minister and liberal leader of the campaign) referred to Canada’s dairy and poultry cartels on average on Wednesday. “About negotiations with President Trump, it’s not on the table.”

If you feel like you hear Carney Very Recently said “there is nothing Defend our workers and our country, your memory is justified. It was less than a week. He drove out cheaper eggs, milk and poultry products from the dining table, which would certainly help many workers. Whose interests he represents here, of course, is not the majority of Canadians.

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This should shock anyone. One must defend supply management at all costs – but never propose to expand it to other agricultural sectors, which is strange – is part of the basic receiving trade package for all federal politicians after it has arrived in Ottawa. Otherwise, they will feel the anger of the terrible big dairy farm hall.

Maybe we should ask Carney’s position on his patriotism and his commitment to a few Canadians

Maxime Bernier is the only person who opposes supply management in any bills for the Canadian Conservative Party in recent years, and Big Dairy has just moved on and bought Andrew Scheer’s victory. This, without a doubt, confirms the true horrible lobbyist for many in Ottawa. But in reality, it is a simple and cheap operation, a by-product of the leadership election system, and it is just begging for this external interference, both at home and abroad.

In a paper published more than a decade ago, former Freedom Congressman Martha Hall Findlay is now director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, and ultimately proves that the concept of supply management is insufficient in the department of supply management (or its lobbyists) in the department of supply management (or its lobbyists): suppliers do not have enough competitors (their suppliers), they do not have enough competitors, they do not have enough votes.

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Hall Findlay’s paper makes no difference in anything, and maybe we should ask Carney about his views on his patriotism and his commitment to a few Canadians – Smith’s most famous criterion is judgement.

In 2022, Statistics Canada reported that 6,055 dairy farms nationwide employ 31,603 people; and 2,123 poultry and egg farms employing 15,539 people. In summary, only 15% of the population with only 280,000 agricultural work. 15% more jobs as in manufacturing; 11% as in healthcare and social services; 9% more work in wholesale and retail.

All of these people have gone beyond some of the most basic staples to satisfy dairy and chicken farmers, what is this? Why does the Prime Minister trade with Washington at a press conference anyway? For this reason, why would the opposition leaders?

Indeed, complaints about Carney’s position on the matter are also the position of conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. He said in Quebec last week: “In terms of supply management, I will defend farmers.

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There is no hope of relief. But that doesn’t mean we can’t give them an ear.

State Post
cselley@postmedia.com

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