Domestic food supply is critical: supply management guarantees delivery

As this pandemic has clearly demonstrated, security of food supply and supply chains is absolutely critical and it’s imperative that Canadian producers continue to supply those food products to Canadian consumers.
Bruce Muirhead asks: What might have happened were we reliant on U.S. egg and dairy imports the same way we have to rely on outside sources for personal protective equipment?
Ideology has never been a good substitute for data, a fact that has been brought out very vividly by the pandemic that is ravaging the world presently. The Canadian government response has been practical and pragmatic and has made a potentially horrendous situation less so. The fact that Canadians ...

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