The Globe and Mail: Any real attempt to lower the grocery bills for Canadian families would need to address supply management. The Liberals’ food strategy barely mentions supply management, however, and then only to praise it as “fundamental to Canadian self-sufficiency” and contributing to “food sovereignty.”
…Strip out the gauzy anti-market and anti-trade rhetoric, and the reality is this: Supply management is, at its heart, the manipulation of supply and prices to benefit producers at the expense of consumers. It is a subsidy paid by families, often with far less income than the producers who are the beneficiaries of that subsidy…