Andrew Coyne
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first heard Apr 2026
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Uh butter.
All all these things that are just absolute staple items are two or three times the world price.
So we can support not even family farms, as you say, because part of the effect of the quota is the the the the the the the quotas that drive up the prices.
The value of that premium and prices gets capitalized into the value of the quota.
So it makes it harder for
New farmers, young farmers to get into the business.
It it tends to reward consolidation, which is why you've seen more and more of these things being being bought up by large, basically agribusinesses.
At the same time, it discourages Canadian farmers from going out and seeking export markets.
They just hide behind these tariff walls and the quotas and produce products just within that envelope rather than going out and take.
on the world.
And the first thing you hear from Canadian dairy farmers and other others protected by this is, oh, we can't possibly compete.
You've seen how efficient those New Zealand farmers are.
Well, the reason the New Zealand farmers became so efficient is they got rid of their supply management.
They had something sort of similar to it.
back in the past and they scrapped it all and lo and behold New Zealand farmers became export kings.
They they they they had to.
That was the only way they were going to survive.
And so they make these you know world beating products that they export around the world.
Well there's no reason Canadian farmers can't do the same thing.
So it's in their interest in the long term as much as anybody.
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