5-minute read
Des faits essentiels sur le sirop d’érable
The marketing model of maple products in Quebec.
5-minute read
Sirop d’érable : le lent déclin du Québec
The marketing model of maple products in Quebec.
4-minute read
Aucun « tripotage », seulement une approche prudente
Proposing $13 billion of compensation to farmers to end supply management.
6-minute read
Abolir la gestion de l’offre a un coût, et il faut le payer
Proposing $13 billion of compensation to farmers to end supply management.
4-minute read
A small price to pay for free milk
Proposing $13 billion of compensation to farmers to end supply management.
8-minute read
Viewpoint – Ending Supply Management with a Quota Buyback
Since the 1970s, farms in the dairy, poultry, and egg sectors have been subject to supply management, a system which combines production quotas, price controls, and import barriers to increase the prices of goods produced by these farms. The negative effects of this system for consumers have been studied in depth, and there is now a broad consensus regarding their existence and amplitude. The question of compensating farmers in order to abolish this regime remains an open one.
7-minute read
Neuf choses à savoir sur la gestion de l’offre
Supply management 101.
6-minute read
Traire les vaches ou les consommateurs?
Two examples of measures that would be beneficial to consumers and producers on both sides of the border.
4-minute read
How to make NAFTA great again
Two examples of measures that would be beneficial to consumers and producers on both sides of the border.
15-minute read
Trading Supply Management for Softwood Lumber?
During the American election campaign, Donald Trump criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement on several occasions, going so far as to call it “a disaster,” and he clearly stated his intention to renegotiate it. Although the new president is wrong to target it as the source of the economic ills afflicting his country, it is true that NAFTA could be improved.