Supply management in Canada is a marketing board system that sets production and prices for dairy, poultry and eggs. Farmers must purchase quota in order to produce and sell product, which is collectively valued at $25-billion. The benefits of the system include stability and product quality for producers, processors and consumers. These benefits, however, are limited and are outweighed by the cost.
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Imagine what would happen if the government of Canada took $150 from every family, regardless of their income, and transferred the proceeds to just 13,000 people. Imagine further that the $150 went to business owners with millions of dollars in assets. This already exists in Canada. It’s called supply management. (~2 min.)
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February 15, 2013 —
Time to Abandon Supply Management in Agriculture
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January 25, 2013 —
How Biofuel Subsidies Hurt Poor People
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December 17, 2012 —
Canada’s Organic Standard is Failing the Consumer and the Grower
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December 7, 2012 —
Saving Our Industry, Our Communities, Our Environment (Amanda Stevenson)
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November 28, 2012 —
Canada’s Organic Nightmare (CJME)
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November 5, 2012 —
Canada's Organic Nightmare (CBK-R)
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August 10, 2012 —
Policy Should Favour Science
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May 31, 2012 —
Grain Freight Regulation in Canada (CJJC)
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November 5, 2011 —
Wheat Board Director Resigns From Circus
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October 28, 2011 —
Prairie Governments Should Look Forward, Not Backward, On the Wheat Board
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October 28, 2011 —
Rural Renaissance (SK)
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September 25, 2011 —
The Dangers of Manitoba's Hog Expansion Moratorium
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Latest Publications
— March 25, 2013
Martha Hall Findlay has brought attention to Canada’s system of supply management; a system in which production quotas are allocated to dairy, poultry, turkey and egg farmers, and prices are set by their respective marketing boards. Farmers themselves are the victims of this status quo – particularly export dependent producers in Western Canada.
— March 25, 2013
Critics of supply management have typically focused on the high cost paid by consumers. Cami's predicament demonstrates how lost export opportunities and the stifling of agricultural innovation is harming a much broader swath of the economy. Supply management is sapping economic growth, jobs and productivity, up and down the food chain, not to mention the hit on government revenues.
— March 22, 2013
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rainer Knopff's speech Hunting for Habitat: On the Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services that he gave in Calgary on February 28, 2013.
— March 8, 2013
Eric Merkley shows that Canada’s supply management system stands in need of reform, and considers how the political obstacles to change can be overcome.
— February 28, 2013
A new study by the Frontier Centre looks back at a 2008 Alberta proposal that sought to compensate private landowners for protecting habitat for wildlife and argues that the widely-misunderstood proposal was a great way to balance competing public and private interests.
— January 31, 2013
Ray Garnett analyzes recent data and discusses the role that solar activity plays in shaping summer climates in the Prairie Provinces.
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RE: Eat Beef to Help the Environment
— February 21, 2008
Cattle ranching is spreading like a virus across the planet, gobbling up our precious, ecologically diverse and carbon dioxide absorbing forests. It is no exaggeration to say that the expansion of ranching is a crisis that must be stopped, if life on Earth as we know it is to continue. Richard Brunt, Victoria
RE: Eat Beef to Help the Environment
— January 11, 2008
Please congratulate Robert Supuck for his great article appearing in to-days National Post. It's too bad more of the so called environmentalists don't share his views. E-mail from Gerry Kaumeyer
RE: How Urbanization Changes Environmental Policy
— November 22, 2007
I enjoyed your article in Today’s Free Press. It was right on the mark! I appreciated your comments about clear cut logging and the subsequent forest regeneration and renewal.
Also, congratulations on your appointment to the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. E-mail from Winnipeg
RE: Farmer Abuse
— March 28, 2005
I am acutely aware that current international trade rules are not working for western Canadian farmers. At the WTO, this is a critical year for negotiations. We need to be there, not only to press for meaningful concessions from other countries but to ensure a deal that doesn't tip the scales away from producers in Canada. - E-Mail from Ken Ritter, Canadian Wheat Board
Read more and our response . . .
RE: The CWB Pricing Premiun Myth
— June 18, 2007
Thanks for your work and report, I hope you put it in every paper and bill board in CANADA. No wonder the Americans were taking the CWB to court for dumping CWB wheat into their country. E-mail from Saskatchewan
RE: Your Land is not Your Land
— November 21, 2007
You published an absolutely stunning article, let me congratulate you for choice of words and facts to support it.
I am sure it will serve as an eye opener for those who don't yet understand that they have no rights nor freedoms.
I'd be honoured to shake your hand one day!
E-mail from Ontario
RE: Farmer Abuse
— May 28, 2005
I am acutely aware that current international trade rules are not working for western Canadian farmers. At the WTO, this is a critical year for negotiations. We need to be there, not only to press for meaningful concessions from other countries but to ensure a deal that doesn't tip the scales away from producers in Canada. - E-Mail from Ken Ritter, Canadian Wheat Board
Read more and our response . . .
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Al Loyns on reforming the Wheat Board
They want to capture the export market. They are not prepared to take into consideration the value to the Prairies and to our producer groups of running our own plants, and of not having to deal with export prices per se. The export prices are what the Canadian Wheat Board looks at because that’s all it can do. But processing operations on the Prairies can create value and make people on the Prairies better off. We don’t get that opportunity under the existing system.
Québec’s Margarine Madness
The longest, strangest case of protectionism in Canadian history was supposed to end on September 1. A trade panel had said that Québec must open its borders to the import of coloured margarine. Clocking in at 119 years, this market intervention in the dairy business is a textbook example of how governments, under the guise of public health concerns, play favourites and regulate to the detriment of other industries and consumers.
Good Riddance 2004
The weather made for a difficult and tricky harvest. “Basically, there was no forgiveness this year” said Sims.” If you couldn’t take advantage of the few weeks of good farming we had you were toast.”
Dipping Toes into Water Policy
Officials of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans now have the power to designate just about any waterbody as "critical fish habitat", even, most bizarrely, sewer systems and drainage ditches. Never mind that fish were never a feature of these artificial structures. And once the "feds" start up their regulatory machinery, a process of endless hearings, permits and delays begins that is sure to hamper the ability of Manitoba communities to protect themselves.
Bottom-Up Change At The Australian Wheat Board
In contrast to the comprehensive, bottom-up restructuring underway down under, the reforms in the new Canadian Wheat Board Act offered producers a shadowy sort of "farmer control" that proved more rhetorical than real. The new Australian Wheat Board will necessarily be accountable because farmers will be free to unload their shares if they disagree with its policies. That's real clout compared to the Canadian producers' meaningless "right" to elect directors who serve at the whim of the Minister of the day.
Paying Farmers for Environmental Stewardship
It’s no exaggeration to say that the flow of high quality, inexpensive food is one of the best social programs in Canada; even poor people can eat well. But now, in addition to demanding inexpensive food, Canadians are demanding that farmers provide an environmental “crop” as well.
Media Release - Improving Life from Telecommuting
Spurred by advances in information technology, especially the spread of broadband services, telecommuting is already the fastest growing mode of getting from home to work. Facilitated by continued expansion in broadband, telecommuting is poised to become more popular than transit and non-household car pools as a means of accessing work.
Reforming Wheat Board Elections
The logical solution would be to allocate votes on the basis of economic interest, as is the case with the Australian Wheat Board. Votes should be given out based on the amount of actual grain farmers deliver; the more you deliver, the more votes you receive.
End of Oil Won’t End Car Culture or Shape Cities
Even if the price of oil were cataclysmically stretching our household budgets, re-forming our cities into models of nineteenth-century London, or even moving in that direction, would not be the most economical answer.
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Upcoming EventsMore events coming soon. Please join us then as we explore the frontier of public policy.
Upcoming FCPP Appearances
Visionary Conversations: Our Education System: The Good, the Bad, and the Solutions
Speaker: Rodney Clifton, Senior Fellow for Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Date: May 22, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Robert B Schultz Theatre, St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus
Community Policy Forum
Speaker: Steve Lafleur, FCPP Policy Analyst
Date: May 28, 2013
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Place: Grant Park McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, Mb
Sat May 18, 2013
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