Western Standard - How Alberta Could Destroy Canada's Soviet-Style Dairy Cartel ｜ The Cory Morgan Show

00:00:00.000 Canada's Soviet supply management system on dairy, poultry, and eggs. It's been screwing

00:00:05.220 citizens for decades with higher food prices. It's been shrinking family farms, and it's

00:00:10.020 disrupted international trade deals. The dairy cartels are deeply entrenched in Canada, and

00:00:14.940 they've effectively cowed every federal political party, including the Conservatives. No major

00:00:19.960 federal leader is going to dare question supply management for fear of upsetting the precious

00:00:24.020 souls in Quebec, which benefits, of course, disproportionately from the program. So the

00:00:29.060 standoff on this terrible policy robs Canadian consumers of billions of dollars. Now Premier

00:00:34.580 Daniel Smith might actually prove to be the catalyst that finally breaks this system.

00:00:39.180 I mean, supply management serves Alberta poorly, and she can make a solid case as to why the 0.95

00:00:43.380 province should exit the system. Smith has nothing to fear with the wrath of Quebec. If anything,

00:00:48.160 pissing off, Quebec only bolsters her support back home. Alberta has some of the richest 0.98

00:00:52.000 agricultural land in North America. We also have some of the most experienced and successful

00:00:56.100 farmers and ranchers. If they could be freed from the shackles of Canada's supply management system,

00:01:00.720 we could look forward to a more diverse, value-added agricultural industry, benefiting all Albertans,

00:01:06.560 producers, and consumers. Currently, the dairy quotas predominantly go to Quebec producers. It's

00:01:11.520 $25,000 a cow for a quota in Quebec, and as much as $50,000 in Alberta. It's illegal to produce eggs,

00:01:17.640 milk, chickens, or turkeys without that government-issued quota. It's ridiculous. And Alberta 0.94

00:01:21.980 farmer was recently jailed for the crime of selling his own eggs. The system is obscene

00:01:26.060 in its control and infringement upon free markets. Albertans pay inflated prices for food products

00:01:32.360 due to the purposeful strangulation of supply due to this system. In any other industry, this sort of

00:01:37.540 price-fixing would be illegal. Canadian dairy producers have literally dumped over 6 billion

00:01:42.360 litres of milk down the drain over the last few years because it would be illegal for them to sell it

00:01:46.440 or even give it away. Isn't that nice for families struggling to pay the food bills? The systems led

00:01:51.040 to Canada having fewer dairy farmers in larger concentrations in Quebec, of course. When supply

00:01:55.720 management was first imposed upon farmers, there were 140,000 dairy farms. Now there's only about

00:02:00.300 9,000 and that number is dropping because only large corporate operations can afford those quotas and

00:02:05.320 they've squeezed out the small producers. New Zealand and Australia had supply management systems

00:02:09.500 in the 70s, but they wisely got out of those in the 80s. Because they got rid of it, their dairy

00:02:13.860 industries have flourished and both countries have turned into very successful exporters of

00:02:18.060 agricultural products. Alberta could do the same. Defenders of dairy cartels try to claim that if

00:02:23.760 we got rid of the wretched quota system, we'd suddenly be flooded with dairy products without

00:02:27.020 regulations. That's a ridiculous and outright lie. Quality control standards have nothing to do with 0.98

00:02:32.520 the price-fixing scheme and the standards won't change when the racket's dismantled. They also claim

00:02:36.980 we'd be flooded with allegedly inferior American products if we got rid of the quota system.

00:02:41.120 Again, it's a load of BS. The tariff system blocking American dairy goods has nothing to do with

00:02:45.960 quotas. Americans' dairy products are neither inferior or dangerous, but if you really don't

00:02:50.860 want them, just don't buy them. If we have a strong domestic dairy industry unbound by supply management, 0.51

00:02:55.500 we won't need to import dairy products anyways. We can be exporters of everything from powdered milk

00:03:00.080 to cheese to ice cream. We can compete. Supply management defenders are making the case that

00:03:04.600 Canadian producers are so incompetent that if we got rid of the quota system, they'd go broke.

00:03:08.720 Well, maybe some of them are. Let them go then. The strong will survive just as they do in every 0.99

00:03:13.580 other industry. And no, we couldn't get rid of the system overnight. An addict has to be weaned from

00:03:18.240 their drug of their choice. It might die in withdrawal. The system must be dismantled though

00:03:22.840 over some years and in stages, and a degree of compensation must go to quota holders. There's no

00:03:28.340 better time to start that process than now. Supply management benefits Quebec, thus no federal party

00:03:33.420 will dare question it. If we want to break free, it has to be a provincial initiative, and we can't

00:03:37.320 initiate it soon enough. So much like the pension plan, the RCMP collecting our own taxes, supply

00:03:42.120 management's another policy where Alberta can step up and take control for itself. And with all those

00:03:47.520 policies, when the federalists complain about Alberta standing up for itself, our response should be the

00:03:51.660 same. What's she going to do about it? I mean, what are they going to do? Stop buying our milk?

00:03:55.900 They already don't. Stop buying our oil? They already don't. Punish us with regional-based pet taxes?

00:04:01.320 They already do. If Premier Daniel Smith breaks the dairy cartel in Alberta, it'll lead to the end of

00:04:07.000 it across Canada, and everybody will benefit. But it has to begin with putting Albertans first.

Western Standard - July 28, 2025

How Alberta Could Destroy Canada's Soviet-Style Dairy Cartel ｜ The Cory Morgan Show

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