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CPC nominee Scott Aichison vows to end controversial supply management system that controls prices for dairy, poultry and eggs
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April 20, 2022 • 4 hours ago • 4 minutes reading • 106 comments CPC candidate Scott Aichison promises to end controversial dairy and poultry supply management systems.
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Supply management, which dominated the Tory leadership race in 2017 and led to the victory of Andrew Scheer, is becoming a hot topic in this year’s race.
Ontario MP Scott Aichison, who is running for leader, has vowed to end a controversial system that has controlled milk and egg prices for decades – saying it will help Canadian families with their food bills and farmers who want to grow their business and export worldwide.
“I will do it because I am not afraid to make difficult decisions,” Aichison said in a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “This is real leadership. That’s the right approach. “
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🧵 It is time for us Conservatives to put an end to Pierre Trudeau’s supply management system. We will do this to help families struggling with their food bills. And we will do it to help farmers sell their exclusive products around the world. pic.twitter.com/4Ol6JBNva3
– Scott Aitchison (@ScottAAitchison) April 20, 2022
This is one of the key promises that Maxim Bernier made when he hoped to become the leader of the Federal Conservatives before two leadership races. He was second only to Scheer, who promised to keep supply management and was therefore supported by a very active lobby of dairy farmers in Quebec in the 13th and final round of voting.
So far, Aichison is the only candidate in the current leadership race who has come out against supply management and admitted in an interview with the National Post that he expects some “resistance from people who take advantage of the status quo.”
But his tone is far from that of Bernier, who said of the Canadian dairy industry that it was a “cartel” using a “socialist system” and that producers were economically “illiterate.”
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“I am a collaborator, a creator of consensus. Of course, I would start by discussing how we will do this with farmers. There really had to be some compensation for the quotas. A lot is being invested there. But through discussion and cooperation and negotiations with farmers is the way to start the process, “Aichison said.
“It will not happen overnight. It will take some time. But this is the right thing for farmers and the right thing for consumers.
Supply management is a framework of national agricultural policy introduced by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s, which is used to control the supply of dairy products, poultry and eggs through import controls and pricing mechanisms. . In order to place their products on the market, farmers have to buy permits, also known as “quotas”.
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Sylvain Charlebois, a professor of food distribution and food policy at Dalhousie University, looked at Aichison’s proposal and said it was a “weak argument” to make food prices automatically fall with the end of supply management.
However, he acknowledged that the current system discourages Canadian manufacturers from exporting to new markets.
But change is not easy. “There is a lot of resistance right now. “Canada’s dairy farmers are one of the most powerful lobby groups in the country,” Charlebois said. “They are chasing all sorts of dissenting voices, including mine. And guess what? They just found a new friend with this candidate. “
Conservative commentator Rudy Husney told the National Post that the announcement of Aitchison’s supply management was a strategic move to attract attention and raise enough money to go to the polls. Applicants have until April 29 to hand over a total of $ 300,000 to the Conservative Party of Canada.
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“He has less than 10 days to do that. So I believe it is a strategy to tackle this topic, to try to raise funds for it, and to hope that, if he succeeds on this topic, he takes part in the vote. So I think it’s a tactical move on his part, “Husney said.
In 2017, Bernie drew a lot of attention by promising to end supply management, a taboo subject for politicians like him who had many dairy farmers riding in Bos, Quebec. Scheer’s team then managed to sell the membership to the dairy farmers, telling them they needed someone on their side. Work.
Bernier continued to form the People’s Party of Canada. Scheer, on the other hand, is now proud to support his fellow MP, Pierre Poalievre, who is considered a leader in this leadership race. Poilievre said he supported the status quo for supply management, as well as leadership contenders Leslin Lewis and Jean Charest.
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“You bet. Mr. Charest will support and defend supply management, “said Michelle Coates Mater, a spokesman for Charest, when asked about the problem.
Husney said that since supply management is now part of the topic of discussion in the leadership race, there may be a window of opportunity for Charest, in particular, to strengthen and be a champion of dairy farmers in Quebec and Ontario, as he did the Scheer team in 2017
Charlebois, on the other hand, believes Aichison’s ambition to end supply management will be dashed and predicts that the man will not be able to become a leader because the lobbies involved will “crush” him.
“You can’t be the leader of a major political party in Canada and oppose supply management unless, of course, you’re Maxim Bernier and look at what happened to him.
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