The status quo continues to benefit a closed, protected, and largely unaccountable system

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Over the past few weeks, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, with the full backing of the Bloc Quebecois, has launched a well-coordinated charm offensive to extol the virtues of supply management. According to its proponents, this system is the best tool to safeguard Canada’s food sovereignty.

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But beyond the usual slogans, hard data on actual production costs, profit margins, and the broader economic impacts on consumers and processors is conspicuously absent.

Supply management, in its current form, rests on the logic of state-administered scarcity — a delicate balance that more closely resembles a house of cards. While often portrayed as a........

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