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Old 06-11-2018, 10:00 AM  
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Originally Posted by PR_Glen View Post
Our dairy is taxed just the same. milk costs 3 times as much here as it does in the US because of that. It's a strange monopoly we have with dairy here, which i don't get.
It's a supply management law that the canadian government has in place to protect canadian dairy farmers. the law prevents over supply. the problem is without it, the ca dairy industry would be decimated by US milk sales. Just Wisconsin alone has more milk production than ca in total.

i understand that trudeau is backed into a corner over tariffs due to this, but i disagree with how he's playing trump about it.

here's a pretty solid article on the dairy sitch that I've used to help me understand it all better, it's a ca article

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...ticle34802291/
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