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Uh how about they break up the dairy and egg cartels and abolish quotas so there can be some real fucking competition.
You literally listed dairy quotas in your comment as if it's a good thing. It's anti competitive, plain and simple, and guess who has the jurisdiction to deal with anti competitive business practices on a national scale.
Oh, totally it's anti-competitive, and I don't disagree with you, but we were talking anti-inflationary / price stability measures. It's not a good solution (we regularly pay more for milk and eggs), but it does keep the price from jumping around, and for-profit companies from price gouging.
How TF does a cartel that regulates production and dictates prices keep those companies from gouging?
They literally control the entire industry, there's no customer protections at all.
Unfortunately that statement demonstrates a functional misunderstanding of how supply management operates.
Farmers / quota pools are mandated by these government regulations to have supply marginally exceed expected consumer demand specifically to address common issues with any commodity sector such as price gouging (to protect consumers), and predatory pricing (to protect producers).
https://bcegg.com/our-story/supply-management/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/adv/article-matching-demand-and-made-in-canada-eggs-with-supply-management/
Conservatives would be even less likely to abolish the quotas. Their main voters are farmers, which benefit the most without having to compete as much.
Do that and we'll instead have to subsidize the industry like it's done elsewhere. We'll also see the rise of even bigger producers that will buy smaller producers and a huge increase in the waste of dairy products and eggs. Prices would start fluctuating a lot more instead of being fairly stable compared to most things found in groceries.
Stop blaming the government (especially the federal one as it has less power over things that affect the population directly) and start looking at the profits made by grocery stores, that's where you'll find your money.