Supply management integral to a strong Canadian agricultural sector

Canadians prefer fresh, high-quality Canadian food to those commodities from the U.S. Food security and sovereignty is too important to be left to ideologues.

It is the same with eggs. A surplus of production over consumption in the U.S. has driven down the cost to unsustainable levels, for farmers at least, writes Bruce Muirhead.Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Opinion

BY BRUCE MUIRHEAD

March 12, 2018

Recent stories have been shedding a negative light on supply management, the Canadian system that matches domestic demand with domestic supply in dairy, eggs, and poultry. Some authors continue in the old tradition of having ideology and opinion pass for data. In a recent case, two authors supporte...

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