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1. Supply management increases prices, reduces range of milk and other dairy products

   When the Australian market was deregulated in 2000, the average price farmers received for raw milk almost doubled. ...

2. Canada can eliminate supply management by following Australia's lead

   Appeared in the Financial Post, July 17. 2018 As trade tensions between Canada and the United States over NAFTA renegotiations continue, and President Trump places Canada’s protection of various sectors of its agricultural industry front and centre, ...

3. Phasing Out Supply Management: Lessons from Australia's Dairy Industry

   Australia’s dairy industry has a long history of government support and control. From the 1920s to the end of the twentieth century, a succession of state and federal governments sought to stabilize the supply and price of milk, butter, and cheese and, as ...

4. Are we really jeopardizing NAFTA to protect 13,500 farmers?

   Appeared in Maclean's, January 22, 2018 The United States has repeatedly indicated that a key tension in NAFTA renegotiations is Canada’s continued protection of dairy, poultry and egg producers. These protectionist policies, known as supply ...

5. Canada’s current agricultural supply management system—not worth fighting for

   In one of his continuing stream of complaints and threats to dissolve NAFTA, President Trump recently took aim at Canada’s dairy industry stating that the U.S. can’t let Ottawa “take advantage” of the trade relationship, and that what ...