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La gestion de l’offre de produits agricoles coûte 300 $ par famille au Québec
Publication of an Economic Note on an obsolete, costly and unfair system: supply management.
1-minute read
The Stabilization Insurance program and the crisis in the pork industry
In the last few months, serious setbacks afflicting Quebec’s pork industry have been making headlines: the closing of slaughterhouses and processing plants, layoffs, and financial losses. A number of causes have been used to explain this crisis, in particular the rise of the Canadian dollar, industry cycles, high sickness levels, a lack of competitiveness among slaughterhouses, added costs to meet environmental standards, rigidities in collective marketing, and so on. A moratorium decreed by the provincial government on increases in pork production from 2002 to 2005 also stalled the rapid growth that the industry had experienced for more than a decade and stymied numerous investment projects.
4-minute read
Recette pour le lait canadien
Publication of an Economic Note on the supply management system in Canada’s dairy industry.
1-minute read
Reforming dairy supply management in Canada: the Australian example
Even with a temporary reprieve from the latest WTO talks in Hong Kong in December 2005, the supply management system in Canada’s dairy industry will have to be reformed in the longer term. The system clearly benefits certain milk producers, but on the other hand it holds Canadian consumers hostage and stifles entire industries that have to pay more for their milk. It erects an obstacle to competition throughout the Canadian dairy industry, penalizing the most dynamic producers by means of extravagantly expensive quotas. When it comes to reforming the dairy supply management system in Canada, a number of concerns have been raised to which the Australian experience provides answers.
4-minute read
Prix du lait – Pourquoi payons-nous toujours plus cher?
MEI Economic Note on the “supply management” model in agriculture.
4-minute read
Les consommateurs lésés – Le système des quotas est directement responsable de la hausse du prix du lait
MEI Economic Note on the “supply management” model in agriculture.
5-minute read
Sour milk system – Canada’s dairy quota system of supply management ensures that Canadians will pay more and inefficiencies will be preserved
MEI Economic Note on the “supply management” model in agriculture
5-minute read
Sour milk system – Canada’s dairy quota system of supply management ensures that Canadians will pay more and inefficiencies will be preserved
MEI Economic Note on the “supply management” model in agriculture
1-minute read
Dairy production: the costs of supply management in Canada
International talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in July 2004 drew attention to the “supply management” model in agriculture. This model was first applied in Australia in the 1920s to protect farmers’ incomes against economic swings and lower prices for their products as well as to increase their power in relation to buyers. Supply management, which is held out today as an indispensable element of Canadian agricultural policy, is in reality a needlessly costly system, particularly where dairy production is concerned.
3-minute read
Agriculture et aliments transgéniques
The economics of transgenic foods.