The province is giving $13.5 million towards a new poultry research centre at its property near Elora.
In making the announcement, it said there are 1,200 chicken and turkey producers an 432 egg producers who will benefit “from cutting-edge research and innovative technologies that will be housed onsite.”
I fail to understand why quota-holding quota producers need this government handout. They are all millionaires and some are billionaires, enriching themselves by garnering the highest prices in North America on the backs of some consumers who are desperately poor.
They have the same technology, equipment and genetics as producers in the United States and should be able to compete without supply management. Or, at the very least, at tariff protection rates about a quarter of the current tariffs.
