PJ The Belt - January 07, 2026


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Mark Carney Dalhousie Jerry

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Dairy farmers in Canada dump billions of liters of milk each year to keep prices high and keep food prices stable. While millions of Canadians visit a food bank every month, and many children go hungry, the Canadian supply management system has farmers dumping millions and billions of litres of milk every single year.

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00:00:00.000 Canada, by the way, imposes a 250 to 300 percent tariff on many of our dairy products.
00:00:06.780 They do the first little carton of milk at a very low price,
00:00:09.900 but after that it gets bad and then it gets up to 275, 300 percent.
00:00:14.740 If American exports exceed this amount, they can be subject to high tariffs.
00:00:19.100 For example, milk tariffs are at 241 percent and butter, 298.5 percent.
00:00:26.900 We don't like it and it's not fair.
00:00:28.720 It's not fair to our farmers.
00:00:30.060 It's not fair to our country.
00:00:31.440 Here's the reality.
00:00:32.780 And nobody in Ottawa wants to say it out loud, but I'll say it.
00:00:36.920 In Canada, we dump billions and billions of gallons of perfectly good milk year after year on purpose.
00:00:44.260 Not because people don't need food, but because supply management is designed to keep prices high.
00:00:50.320 While families are flooding food banks in Canada,
00:00:53.160 a small, well-connected dairy cartel, mostly in Quebec, gets protected profits.
00:00:58.720 And that same system is blocking real free trade with the United States.
00:01:04.040 Trump has called it out multiple times.
00:01:06.620 And now we have a massive trade dispute over it.
00:01:10.040 And Canada keeps losing leverage.
00:01:12.140 This isn't farming.
00:01:13.320 It's political protectionism.
00:01:15.320 And it's only hurting Canadians.
00:01:17.640 Okay, here's a tweet from Canada's food professor.
00:01:23.660 A joint Dalhousie and McGill University study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard as much as 1 billion liters of milk each year.
00:01:35.020 Not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices.
00:01:42.480 That's what's happening in Canada today with supply management.
00:01:47.260 While millions of Canadians visit a food bank every month and many children go hungry,
00:01:53.300 the Canadian supply management system has farmers dumping millions and billions of liters of milk every single year.
00:02:00.820 Here's a video talking about the problem supply management creates for Canadians.
00:02:05.640 First, you really have to understand what supply management is.
00:02:08.240 So there's three pieces to supply management.
00:02:11.040 First, it puts limits on what can be produced.
00:02:14.000 The second, it puts artificial limits on the prices.
00:02:16.920 It puts the prices up higher, controls the price, the production inside the country.
00:02:21.720 And the third is it has to have limits, tariffs and quotas to keep it from outside.
00:02:27.700 So in Canada, what we do with supply management is say, we're only going to produce for our markets.
00:02:33.620 And that system is done that way.
00:02:35.620 The flip side is in the U.S., they give a subsidy to everybody.
00:02:39.440 That means overproduction.
00:02:41.080 They need to find a market to sell it.
00:02:43.100 We are their best market to sell milk because we're right next door.
00:02:46.760 It's really easy.
00:02:47.420 So the Americans want to take their overproduction and sell it to Canada.
00:02:52.140 And our system is made to have no additional needs because of supply management.
00:02:57.440 They're incompatible systems.
00:02:59.700 It's a terrible system ripping Canadians off.
00:03:02.620 And it's designed to keep a very well-connected group of farmers from going bankrupt.
00:03:08.540 If they're so confident in their product, oh, we got better milk up here in Canada,
00:03:13.080 then open up the market and let the market compete.
00:03:18.340 Let the market sort itself out.
00:03:20.760 Let the Canadian consumer choose.
00:03:23.140 Here's a video that I'm sure many of you who are familiar with this topic have probably already seen.
00:03:28.840 It is a dairy farmer talking about the reality of him having to dump thousands and thousands of liters of milk
00:03:35.800 because he's already reached the quota and he can't sell it.
00:03:39.360 He can't distribute that milk.
00:03:40.800 He can't do anything but dump it by law.
00:03:43.520 Otherwise, they basically close his farm.
00:03:46.260 Hey, guys.
00:03:47.260 We're here at Gibbon Bo's Farm in Southern Ontario.
00:03:50.680 We milk about 260 pounds.
00:03:54.120 Right now, during the winter months, we do milk quite a bit more milk because the feed is very consistent.
00:04:00.600 And as you do a good job, you will produce quite a bit of milk.
00:04:03.780 So, right now, we're over our flotum.
00:04:09.060 It's regulated by the government and by the DFO.
00:04:12.760 But the problem is, is what they don't understand.
00:04:14.840 There's millions of people who look at this milk running away.
00:04:17.560 It's the end of the month.
00:04:19.000 I count 30,000 liters of milk and it breaks my heart.
00:04:24.520 I will show you.
00:04:26.920 By the way, this here, Canadian milk, it's $7 a liter.
00:04:31.300 When I go for my haircut, people say, wow, $7, Jerry, for a little bit of milk.
00:04:37.060 I say, well, you have to go higher up because we have no say anymore as a dairy farmer on our own farm.
00:04:44.300 Unbelievable, man.
00:04:45.480 They make us dump it.
00:04:52.200 Wow.
00:04:53.360 And no matter how we stand up, for this time, I'm going public.
00:04:56.620 I want the people to see the pain that us growers have.
00:05:01.120 I feel terrible.
00:05:02.180 In 25 days, as a little boy, we grew up on a dairy farm, came from Europe.
00:05:06.680 Work, work, work.
00:05:08.020 30,000 liters of milk thrown away and wasted.
00:05:13.060 And that is one farm.
00:05:15.280 Thank God this farmer was transparent and shared this online.
00:05:20.120 Because, again, when people talk about it, it doesn't impact you as much.
00:05:24.120 But when you see it, when you see the actual milk with how expensive milk is, especially here in Canada, being dumped, being disposed of, being wasted, it just hits different when you see it.
00:05:38.620 And the farmer himself is like, it breaks my heart to have to get rid of this.
00:05:44.320 It breaks my heart to have to dump it when I know that there are kids out there who don't have a cup of milk.
00:05:50.400 When I know that there are families who can't afford milk.
00:05:53.840 And I'm dumping 30,000 liters.
00:05:57.040 Unbelievable.
00:05:57.820 And that is one farm.
00:05:59.780 And here's another article from CTV News reporting on that exact same issue.
00:06:03.780 Billions of liters of Canadian milk were discarded in the last 12 years.
00:06:09.000 A new study says it has a massive impact.
00:06:14.680 There's reason to cry over spilled milk, researchers say.
00:06:18.240 They found that the discarded dairy product has a massive financial, environmental, and nutritional impact.
00:06:26.080 Systemic deficiencies in Canada's supply management system have led to billions of liters of milk going to waste
00:06:33.380 since 2012, according to a new study published in the journal Ecological Economics.
00:06:40.800 The cost of dumped milk, between 6.8 billion and 10 billion liters of milk, was discarded.
00:06:46.600 They don't even have the exact amount.
00:06:48.920 Between 7 and 10 billion was discarded on Canadian dairy farms over 12 years,
00:06:55.340 according to researchers based in Denmark, Michigan, and Halifax, Dalhousie University.
00:07:01.960 They found that the amount of tossed milk made up about 7% of milk produced on dairy farms over that time
00:07:10.220 and was valued at up to $14.9 billion.
00:07:14.580 In addition, researchers estimated that as much as 10 billion liters of milk was discarded,
00:07:20.660 which contributed to significant land and water resource waste
00:07:24.880 and about 8.4 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions or the amount of emissions from 350,000 passenger vehicles each year.
00:07:35.560 Not only are they wasting food, which is a travesty in a country where millions of Canadians need a food bank in order to survive,
00:07:42.880 but they're also wasting a ton of water as well.
00:07:45.780 And they're also generating a lot more emissions, the equivalent of 350,000 passenger vehicles while they're doing this.
00:07:55.540 But then they want you and I to reduce our carbon footprint or whatever.
00:08:01.180 These people are full of it, and they've always been full of it.
00:08:04.300 And the issue is that it's regular Canadians that pay the price. 0.98
00:08:08.180 Mark Carney doesn't care if milk is $10 a liter.
00:08:11.100 He doesn't care if the gallon of milk reaches the $30 mark.
00:08:15.480 He doesn't care because he can afford it.
00:08:18.140 Him and his family are fine.
00:08:20.060 It's regular Canadians that are going hungry and are having to visit food banks more than ever.
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