{"id":160,"date":"2016-05-31T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2025-05-16T04:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:57:30","slug":"maxime-bernier-calls-for-debate-on-supply-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/2016\/05\/31\/maxime-bernier-calls-for-debate-on-supply-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxime Bernier Calls for Debate on Supply Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ottawa<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Maxime Bernier, leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, today called on Conservative members to reconsider the Party\u2019s official support for supply management in agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supply management is a legislated cartel based on control of production, on the banning of imports, on price fixing by bureaucrats, and on preventing competition and entry into the market. It forces families, especially those with children and low-income families, to pay hundreds of dollars more every year for dairy, egg and poultry products. It is 2.6 billion of dollars more that Canadians pay each year for these products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maxime Bernier believes it\u2019s time to adopt a position on this issue based on free-market principles. \u201cConservatives are not credible when we talk about principles and then defend policies that squarely contradict these principles,\u201d he said at a press conference in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy is not only unfair to consumers, but also to the 90% of farmers in other agricultural sectors who cannot develop their export markets as much as they otherwise could, because the protection of supply management has always been the focus of negotiations in trade agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn order to satisfy one small but powerful lobby, we restrict the development of thousands of other farming businesses across the country, and prevent the creation of thousands of jobs in these other sectors,\u201d Mr. Bernier declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beauce MP proposes to follow the successful example of reform in Australia. There would be a gradual phase-out of the system with a temporary levy on these products to compensate farmers for the value of their quota. After that transition period, Canada would have a free, open and fair system to all, with lower prices, innovation, and more growth in the whole agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several commentators and personalities have concluded over the years that supply management is an inefficient and unfair system, including former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who said it\u2019s time to consider ending it. Maxime Bernier believes the leadership race is a good occasion to have a real debate on this issue instead of maintaining this taboo, despite the political risk it implies. \u201cI am willing to take that risk, because I believe that this is the right thing to do for all Canadians and for the Canadian economy\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa&nbsp;\u2013 Maxime Bernier, leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, today called on Conservative members to reconsider the Party\u2019s official support for supply management in agriculture. Supply management is a legislated cartel based on control of production, on the banning of imports, on price fixing by bureaucrats, and on preventing competition and entry into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximebernier.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}