Instead of being forced to reduce their market, dairy farmers in Ontario have a plan to expand it by 10 per cent by 2030.
So after Canadians spent $4.7 billion in trade subsidies for dairy farmers, they are on track to keep producing as much milk as ever, and probably more than ever. And at greatly inflated prices because of supply-management protection.
There's nothing remotely comparable to other farmers, except poultry farmers who also have supply management protections.
It's not fair within the farming community, it's not fair to low and moderate-income families who are charged higher prices for milk, dairy and poultry products and it's not fair to taxpayers.
In the past we were told supply management maintained special treatment to preserve Liberal votes in Quebec. Forget that nonsense!
Even if all of Quebec's Liberal-voting dairy farmers were lumped into one riding, that might not be enough to ensure victory for a single Liberal candidate.
I have another question for the politicians in Ottawa. Will they apply full taxation to the cash dairy farmers have gained in trade-compensation subsidies?
