This is the main argument that pro-CPC folks have been telling me to vote for CPC instead of PPC. They say Max made the mistake of starting his own party. They argue that if he waited it out he could have been the leader of the CPC this time around. Is Trump running as a Republican a good comparison to this?
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Supply management was enacted in 1972 here in Canada. It's running now for 48 years without causing a holodomor.
Go and ask a farmer if they want to get rid of supply management. 99% of them will tell you to fuck off. They know that if supply management goes away, then they will have to compete with cheap imports from the US. And the only way the can compete with these cheap imports form the US is if they sell below cost. And then we are going to run the same scam as the US, which is handing out billions and billions every year to farmers so that they produce food below cost.
You can kill supply management and keep steep tariffs on US imports though.
And then we're at square one. Kill supply management to lower grocery prices, increase tariffs so that cheap imports are kept out, grocery prices as high as before.
Not necessarily, as we'll have domestic competition which will keep prices lower. That approach seems to be working fine with wheat.
I know someone that works in poultry and it's a shitshow. Sometimes they can't get enough chickens to keep up demand with the products they make like nuggets. Limiting the amount of chickens a farmer can raise and sell is ridiculous.
No, they don't. You really want to argue that the 10 cent we pay more for milk "make up the largest part of a Canadian family's food budget"?
And I want cheaper cars. Better outsource everything to Mexico.
How do you want to do that? Everyone who shops cheap imported goods at Walmart has to prove that they are poor?