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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.The Politics of Milk in Canada
Canada's dairy policy is a very complex web of interrelated policies, programs, and people nested in a number of private and public institutions. It is a system whose creation, expansion, and vigorous defence has been motivated almost entirely by milk producers, i.e., dairy farmers. If they wanted to end the elaborate supply management marketing scheme, open up the border to imports, or renounce the cash subsidies from governments, these changes would be made very quickly by governments.
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William Stanbury
Prior to his retirement, W.T. Stanbury was UPS Foundation Professor of Regulation and Competition Policy, Faculty of Commerce and BusinessAdministration, University of British Columbia. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. Dr. Stanbury published studies on many areas of government regulation, including airlines, telecommunications, rent control, financing of political parties, forestry, marketing boards and occupations. In 1989, he won the Jacob Biely and Killam prizes for his research in university-wide competitions. Dr. Stanbury died in October 2011 at his home in Mexico.… Read more Read Less…
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