Why we must defend supply management

If supply management were sacrificed to satisfy Donald Trump, life in rural Canada would be turned upside down.

The end result of caving to the American president would not be an open market for dairy products, but rather copying the U.S. and Europe by providing subsidies to our dairy producers to the tune of billions of dollars a year, writes Andrew Caddell. Unsplash photograph by Ryan Song

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

July 23, 2025

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I promised myself I wouldn’t write about United States President Donald Trump this summer, just to make my life easier and calmer. However, the American president raised my ire with his recent letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney. In it, he is threatenin...

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