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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. ...
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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, ...
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Canada, Trump and tariffs—a counterproductive and self-defeating quarrel
President Trump’s recent actions have drawn widespread media attention to tariffs. Economic science provides an effective means of discerning the implications amid the hyperbole and rhetoric. Earlier this year, the Trump administration ...
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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 ...