Who's Milking Who?? - Canada's Politics Run by an Unusual Cartel

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[@donmiester45]

The reality is the lobby hurts those most vulnerable, young families on a limited budget.

[@Finness894]

How about if the Canadian Dollar was WORTH amore than 72 cents .... so that when we buy american food goods we GET MORE FOR OUR MONEY . ?

[@brianlove5782]

What do you people know exactly about the dairi industry. Just a reminder small farm can't compete with big farm. And maybe that the reason why Americans government is always trying to. Change that .

[@donmiester45]

@@brianlove5782 I know a mega dairy operator near me expanded to a 2000 cow herd, preventing me from developing my land for much needed housing.

[@AllRequired]

@@Finness894 When the CAD$ runs even with the USD$, the usual suspects do a Chicken Little. When it's in the early 70 cents or lower... Alles Gute.

[@christineeubanks5565]

Clyde you are always breaking things down so we can get the information we need!

[@frankdevries6962]

I Live in the ottawa valley, in the 50's and 60's, we had local producers of milk, cheese and other dairy products. IT WORKED

[@jerikarason2339]

As a senior I must cut back my need and use for milk, butter, yogurt and cheese. . . as it is to expensive and every week it goes higher. Dairy is a valuable protein we need. I am sure the food banks could use a LOT MORE MILK.

[@revolioclockman8090]

Seeing how provincial governments pay windmill operators a high set rate for power, whether it's needed or not, really makes me wonder why they don't just buy up quota shortfalls at a set rate, and let the farmers charge what they like. And then use the purchased milk for, as you say, food banks or natal programs.

[@AllRequired]

@@revolioclockman8090 Boss Tweed politics.

[@shebakoby]

they should run milk that would have been dumped over-quota in a black label, call it "non-market milk", and give it to food banks.

[@sheldon26815]

And I cant give or sell all my raw milk and butter. Because that would make you healthy, and all you seniors wouldnt be on all these drugs. I would also go to jail.

[@ryan89554]

@@shebakoby they only give you that gross stuff called margine i wont touch it with a 50 foot pole.

[@annetteanderson8368]

We had cheese factories everywhere we could have supplied them with local farmers milk that was dumped 🤬

[@jarod144]

Just to artificially inflate prices Farmers lose out big time

[@TheWolfsnack]

....hmmnnn.....Quebec controls the big farms.....like when Saputo bought up the big BC producers....

[@TheWolfsnack]

I was just thinking.....imagine the impact of turning that milk into powdered milk.....but then....it's not crushed up bugs.

[@SuperReznative]

Heads Up ,they are using mnRa modified powdered milk.. used in many processed foods,

[@revolioclockman8090]

Or cheese? That's...kinda the point of cheese?

[@TheWolfsnack]

@@revolioclockman8090 Cottage...Ricotta...Cheddar......Mozza.....but then the prices might drop....

[@margyeoman3564]

Such a great idea!!❤ Powered milk was cheap 30 years ago. Now it is straight gouging.

[@margyeoman3564]

​@@SuperReznativeOUCH!

[@fiaskolo]

I hate to see any food being wasted.

[@cindyhaduik7171]

Yes , that's really the big tragedy

[@juliaschneider8909]

I agree with you and Costco's throws all their meat and seafood and perishables out they don't donate to food banks that is perishables and they don't discount it for the consumer or their employees now that's a waste the government should look into it and it was a Costco meat manager that told me

[@revolioclockman8090]

This is far bigger an issue for me than any other environmental concern.

[@AllRequired]

Wasted food means starving population, which in turn means the business of poverty remains booming.

[@caty9995]

We should decide where that good wasted milk goes. After all it is ours. So many babies and kids out there would need it. It's such a shame.

[@faytruhamchuk8002]

The dairy cartel make no sense for the consumers… imagine the better products without it and better competitive prices.

[@AllRequired]

Maxime Bernier learned the painful way what comes of challenging them. It's why Andrew Scheer took him down on the absolute last ballot.

[@shebakoby]

i really pull my hair out at the propaganda where they pretend that the reason Canada has quality milk is _because_ of the supply restriction, when any idiot knows it's because of regulations completely unconnected to a management of supply.

[@HalifaxPeacock]

Dairy in Canada is produced by numerous middle class multi-generational farms. These people work 24/7/365. I’m glad they’re organized and protected. Go volunteer to work on a Canadian dairy farm. You’ll be begging to leave after a week of 2-3 milkings a day. People don’t have a clue.

[@superdupermax]

.... i went to a small farm. Cows walk up the automated milking machine that auto latches pumps and de latches. Wtf are you rambling about? ​@@HalifaxPeacock

[@HalifaxPeacock]

@@superdupermax Stay safe on that bike and on those ski hills, buddy. Accidents from both can lead to brain injury, cognitive problems and a lowered IQ. All the best.

[@annetteanderson8368]

Yep if my dad went over the quota he got fined and they dumped it 🤬

[@jarod144]

PEI government banned cracked eggs saying they’re not safe for human consumption Eggs get sent to Quebec and sold for human consumption Our affordable flats I ate the whole way through college and university. If they were banned when I was in school I would have starved

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

Ontario banned cracked eggs...back door sales

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

Egg quota in ontario...impossible to buy..yet producers are speaking American eggs into their cartons

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

If you have a few hens in Ontario you can pit out a sign that you have eggs but it is illegal to PRINT that you have eggs for sale

[@dawnelder9046]

My sister in law came from Quebec. We were comparing poverty stories. She talked about cracked eggs. I had never heard of them. Not available in Ontario either.

[@ryan89554]

@@Black-Irish-Acres quotas are stupid, i heard the government wastes food to make it cost more so you can only think about eating like in Nigeria

[@BbTenn]

The free market should define what is “fair”.

[@AllRequired]

Guess who doesn't want a free market?

[@SuperReznative]

Max Bernier of People's Party of Canada,had some good ideas, addressing this when he got voted out of Conservative leadership

[@SuperReznative]

Oh, ..K ,I didn't realize they included that near the end of the interview.Confirmed.

[@johnqpublic407]

It's keeps needing to be said. The cartel had binders of talking points to get rid of him. The Cons capitulated.

[@gabthechef3790]

the argument about being flooded by US milk is a Milk Board propaganda. We could allow the Canadian farmers to produce without the quotas (i.e. no supply mgmt) but keep the trade tariffs. If we added strong quality requirements (e.g. no palm oil allowed in the feed...!!!), we could create a natural barrier of our markets AND give teh Canadian consumer much healthier food.

[@margyeoman3564]

❤❤❤

[@superdupermax]

@@gabthechef3790 i live close to the boarder and enjoy grabbing US milk, cheese, ice cream at much lower prices... and get this... all of those are with milk from farms that dont use any of the growth harmones and have their cows walk around fields eating grass. But there are even cheaper options from mass produced farms. At worst it would give people an option to buy what they want/can afford vs ... zero options.

[@gabthechef3790]

@@superdupermax lucky you. Enjoy!

[@superdupermax]

@@gabthechef3790 first thing i did when mericans allowed purebloods back in was drive down and get a nice big block of tillamook extra sharp chedar 😁

[@ryan89554]

I could use competition from other markets Canada's market share sucks and is too small, also telcoms are a huge protected rip off

[@junegunter2705]

Raw milk should be available and not illegal. Milk at one time used to be good for your bones now it has been so pasteurized that the nutrients are gone. That should be illegal.

[@steve6074]

Palm oil bad Canola oil bad Seed oils bad

[@jimdent351]

I do as much cooking with butter and olive oil that I possibly can, and I will occasionally use lard but to a much lesser extent

[@martinb4093]

Keep having Sylvain Charlebois back on

[@frankdevries6962]

Farmers are not allowed to direct sell locally

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

You can if you "sell" a portion of your cow to them. Look up Michael Smidtt..whole milk supplier

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

I don't want milk from corporations.

[@Louisthebird]

@@Black-Irish-Acres Milk can't leave the property it is milked on, as soon as it does it's illegal too. So even if you 'own' the cow, you can't take the milk home

[@alstewart1186]

Here in BC some do. Not sure of all the details, but obviously they are doing it legally. Google Creekside Creamery in Agassiz BC

[@eyeswideopenn]

Yes there r def some dairy farmers who sell milk and cheese right from their farms . So has to be ways yes

[@yypw]

Great show! I lived in Switzerland for 12 years. Best milk in the world. Went to Cuba recently - the other BEST milk in the world. Canadian milk AND cheese… nah. Dumping so much milk while we are talking (only talkingg… anything being done when about the flooding in ontario every time there‘s a downpour?) about climate change, food supply shortages this day and age… 😢😢😢

[@danh-RedSwan]

Clyde .... Thanks for what you do .

[@AndyOpreshyn]

Clyde...you need to do a story on the okanagan fruit industry! The major packing plant suddenly shuttered its doors... I'm here next to the plant and there is talk of major scandal or corruption of some sort....also, our soft fruit and wine industry was decimated by cold last winter.....

[@WarpedSpeed]

all of the "marketing Board" are not about protecting the industry or helping/protecting the consumer. They are there to keep out anyone attempting to get into the industry. No one can pay the required fees and licences and "quotas" to get into it. So the big get bigger, the little ones are starved out.

[@margyeoman3564]

I heard a farmer say in a newspaper article in Alberta that the quota they had was worth as much or more than their farm. Abd they had their quota for over 50 years. A comment saying the quota is to shut farmers out is definitely true.

[@unclechico2849]

Very interesting topic. It was a great interview. Thank you 😊

[@Black-Irish-Acres]

We used ti be able to sell.our excess milk for 10 cents a litre...on world market. They canceled it. We often feed veal calves and pigs excess milk

[@jackiewalker5240]

They should take the excess milk and sell it to food banks for the price of processing it.

[@Paul-fo4sj]

This country is managed by a terrible Manager (PM). Very sad

[@MarilynHaley-l8k]

Nothing better then cows milk coming right from the cow into the milk cooler i once was a farmer, today milk yuck

[@WarpedSpeed]

at $6++ a pound for butter in Canada there is a problem.

[@revolioclockman8090]

It's too bad dairy farmers couldn't just convert excess milk into butter and cheese to either preserve it until prices recover or export it. Oh well...

[@canadiangirl5159]

In the late 70's my parents were living off grid, with a woodstove for heat and cooking, oil lamps for light ( as a teenager, I did my homework by oil lamp light) and we had a milk cow named Molly. This was before solar power. We had a generator if we needed to use something with power. I drank fresh milk straight from the cow. Unpasteurized. The healthiest milk. Just like our ancestors did long ago. WATCH - Off grid with Doug and Stacy, "This is crazy information about milk, wow" - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qITSkniin52bebs Make Canada Healthy Again!!!

[@revolioclockman8090]

The key here is "one" cow, not several hundred cramped in close quarters creating the ideal conditions for communicable disease. Of course we need much more goverent interference, I mean, oversight under these circumstances.

[@HalifaxPeacock]

Dairy fat is healthy fat! Raw milk, as delicious as it is can be very dangerous if not pasteurized. Many generations of people suffered from infections related to bacteria in milk, including Mycobacterium bovis. It is bovine TB that will infect humans. Fresh milk and cream is yummy, but you’re taking a chance consuming it raw. Stay safe. 😊

[@sircorn4248]

Does anyone remember Andrew Scheer drinking milk on stage during Conservative Convention to demonstrate his loyalty to Milk Cartel?

[@SuperReznative]

@@sircorn4248 I remember Him taking a sip of a glass of milk upon winning the leadership of Conserve.

[@sircorn4248]

@@SuperReznative He was drinking it right from a Neilson carton box.

[@andrewthecelt3794]

The dairy cartel installed him when anti-supply management candidate Maxime Bernier was leading in the convention.

[@ryan89554]

I dont get it milk tastes really gross without espresso

[@sircorn4248]

@@ryan89554 taste does not matter when you get Milk Cartel contributions.

[@TheSvRoma]

How some can think that cartels are bad, but govt protected cartels and unions(which are no other than cartels) are good 🤷‍♂️

[@dallasburgess5329]

We also have a syrup cartel, a group of grocery price fixing cartels, egg cartels, farm cartels- All set up to fix prices and keep the little guys out. Farming is perfect example, little guy can only sell on farm or within 50k - why? (We know why) BC is only place on the planet you MUST pasturize milk. Poultry has quota as well as milk.

[@revolioclockman8090]

"syrup cartel" Hey, that's anti-Mennonism!

[@dallasburgess5329]

@@revolioclockman8090 Talk to Quebec 🤣

[@carvakalokayata1530]

In Canada you can not sell unpasteurized milk. In the U.S some states do allow the sale of unpasteurized milk.

[@dallasburgess5329]

@@carvakalokayata1530 some being 43 states.

[@OldGuyAdventure]

I used to be able to get Norwegian cheese, but it seems this has dried up. Something that was recommended to me was to consume raw milk, but it is illegal in Canada.

[@gabthechef3790]

explain to me why we can buy drugs legally but buying raw milk from my neighbour farm is illegal? (pls save teh argument about raw milk being dangerous. It’s a propaganda!)

[@meticulousperversions9064]

what's the root of all evil? that

[@AndyOpreshyn]

I used to milk my goat straight to my baby's bottle...He is now 6'5" and totally healthy!

[@timcoolican459]

MILK OR BUGS? We don't have our own powdered milk or baby food processing plants, but we have the world's largest cricket protein processing plant, in London, Ontario. What do you think the Trudeau-Singh government has in store for Canadian's future food markets?

[@user-urdaddy]

Thanks a lot. As someone who did his bachelor's in 'dairy technology ', I can't help smile when someone says dairying is also a geopolitical issue now

[@HavendaleBlvd80]

Clyde, please investigate Loblaws a little more within its 500M class action lawsuit settlement for overcharging customers for bread. There is NO WAY bread is the ONLY otem in their inventory that they have been overcharging the customer. Just the bread??! No way. Thanks for the work you do.

[@revolioclockman8090]

I don't buy this. Go to your local independant bakery and find the cheapest loaf of bread. Then go to Loblaws and find the cheapest loaf of bread. Do the same with side-of-the-road farm eggs and grocery store eggs. If the major grocery chains are overcharging, why do they still have the lowest prices?

[@HalifaxPeacock]

Now interview dairy farmers from across Canada and ask them how they feel. There are quotas and tariffs for a reason. We don’t need to feed the rest of the world with our milk. Opening export means opening import. It will be sold to the highest bidder on an open market. Permitting other countries to invest in Canadian agriculture is a major national security issue. Foreign countries buying up Canadian farmland and woodland should be illegal.

[@revolioclockman8090]

Sure, but what is that reason, specifically? Is there no other way to deal with the problem (which obviously exists) or are people complacent because they're taken care of?

[@HalifaxPeacock]

Opening export means opening import. We’ll be flooded with cheap low quality milk from the US and China. It would be the end of dairy farming in Canada. I know plenty of dairy farmers and contrary to what this guy is saying, none of them are rich! Goodness knows they deserve to be.

[@dr.sylvaincharlebois5801]

Listen before posting. I'm right on this issue. Dairy in Canada is self-imploding.

[@HalifaxPeacock]

@@dr.sylvaincharlebois5801 How about you stop making assumptions about viewers and park your righteous ego at the door? I’ve listened to this interview. I’ve also spoken and listened to plenty of dairy farmers, including those who produce organically. I know AG from a close and personal perspective. You’re a business professor at Dal. Are you also a farmer? Milk is dumped in this country for two main reasons: - quality testing issue (bacteria, etc) - production beyond quota (mismanagement) Countries like China have plenty of agricultural land, enormous forests as well as mineral deposits. They do not need Canadian agricultural land, forests and mines. You use the example of a Chinese company wanting to invest in making powdered milk in Canada to export to China. Now supposedly they are making baby formula for the Canadian market. Maybe they should stop poisoning their land, air and water and focus on safe supply in their own backyard first. Communist China is heavily invested in Canada. Paper Excellence is a perfect example (forestry). The company won't disclose past financing because much of it was through the China Development Bank, which is owned by the Chinese government. Take a gander at how heavily they are invested in forestry in Quebec, for example. Not everything is best managed as a free market economy, especially something as essential as dairy. There are plenty of things about to implode in Canada. The federal government is at the top of the list.

[@shebakoby]

hard disagree on the "we don't need to feed the rest of the world with our milk". Competition is a good thing. New Zealand got rid of their Supply Management, and their grass-fed butter (sometimes at costco) is excellent, far superior to Canadian butter. We absolutely should NOT let china or bill gates own farms here though.

[@watskilug]

We produce what we need or use?? Why can't we export it and make more ,cheese etc...

[@victorjoseph8948]

the quotas needs to be reviewed. It makes no darn sense to deprive people from essential foods.

[@pennyd3194]

Thanks Clyde and Dr. Charlebois. Have a fantastic day !

[@sasspopowich1033]

I’m just as allergic to Canadian dairy. It’s no better than the us. Now European dairy is where it’s at. No allergic reaction! Thanks Canada.

[@ryan89554]

I cant drink milk it tastes really gross without espresso

[@davidmueller7587]

the government shut down our creamy in wilmot township in the 1980's . we had world famous butter and powder milk that we shipped all over the world. all we have now is a big hole where the creamy used to be. it's a sad world we live in.

[@axrelis5762]

Free trade was the beginning of the end of a rich Canada!

[@HalifaxPeacock]

You can thank Brown Bag Mulroney for that.

[@AndyOpreshyn]

Yup

[@basilcarroll9729]

Thank you so much Clyde for having this gentlemen on because we eat tons of butter and had no idea they were feeding cows this palmite product, vegetable oils are bad for you.!

[@junegunter2705]

$8 for a pound of butter..thats nuts. Even margarine is expensive . You can forget about good cheese. You need to win the lotto in order for the normal person to be able to buy.

[@GloriaPoole-pm5fn]

I agree with you

[@SuperLuckyTa]

Thank you so much.

[@benoitblanchette9460]

The diary industry needs to be overhauled. #1 diary needs to prohibit growth hormones for milk production #2 prohibit the use of palm oil feed because it produces a product that is unhealthy for human health. Farmers don't need to dump milk because other products can be made. Butter, yogurt, cheese

[@MarilynHaley-l8k]

Clyde you should have Quick Dick Mcdick on your show he's from Saskatchewan he's a farmer as well

[@DFromRc]

When I worked at my uncle’s farm we fed milk to the pigs to prevent going over quota

[@whenever-199iq]

This government is cheesy at best. Meanwhile, they will milk it for everything they can.

[@Gtdr4356]

Sylvain is so knowledgeable. I learn so much anytime I watch his interviews.

[@toofer6269]

You have given this man a forum for his opinions on his opposition to quotas and supply management. Now it’s time to have a representative from the other side, the farmer, and the producer at ground level to tell their side of the issues. Supply management exists in many ag industries, and is one of the only ways that works for a farmer to have a business plan to grow their farm based on the certainty of having a market or receiver to sell his product. Try getting a farm loan from a bank or credit union without quota. End supply management , and lose farms in Canada. Get rid of this Liberal gov, and their punitive policies toward farmers, eg. carbon tax, and things might improve for consumers. That would at least be a start toward better prices for consumers.

[@revolioclockman8090]

I hear that Logitech is trying to sell computer mouses as a subscription. Have dairy farmers thought to try that? It guarantees your produce is purchased in advance so you know how much you need and don't have to overproduce.

[@nunyobusinnes]

@@revolioclockman8090 They used to have local dairies that serviced local people, milk delivered right to your door. I remember as a kid living in the GTA (before it was the GTA) every house in my area had milk boxes in the wall, if you didn't have one it was left on the stoop. I don't know if it was subscription or paid daily, but it worked then.

[@jameshoffman3019]

Funny that places without supply management can have farms that function and grow and are successful. Your comment is cope. If our farmers will really all go out of business, then they are incompetent and useless, and it's about time they were gone.

[@lovemylife4573]

Government overreach ruining principles of free market

[@debinbc]

Thank you Clyde and Dr. Charlebois

[@MarleneSmith-t7l]

Love your site, appreciate your guest

[@craiglefevre4087]

Welfare on a grand scale and surprisingly not that many voters overall.

[@jemla7506]

This was a good one Clyde.

[@g49385]

It's ludicrous to dump milk. There are industrial uses for Cassien as well as it becoming a popular protein supplement. I just set up a line for cassein for use in paint and I HAVE TO bring it in from the USA because it isn't produced in Canada

[@Stmcead]

Canadians should just boycott Canadian Milk and products. After some period the Cartel just won’t work.

[@user-wx8cv2jw6c]

Canadians should boycott many things. We have all this big corporations who are running our country and most Canadians are saying we do not want to get involved. They prefer to stay in their own bubble. This is why were we are now.

[@MarilynHaley-l8k]

Theres one in kingston ont. (Baby formula plant) it should be inspected run by Chinese i heard it filthy

[@marieclaude5197]

Great Topic Clyde!! I had no idea about all this. I look forward to your channel first thing in the morning, while enjoying a cuppa! 💕

[@padraigadhastair4783]

Sweet! Great guest thanks Clyde.

[@charlesrobitaille9360]

The price of milk of two high ,so making any products to export would make it not profitable! Government funding it would be a big mistake .

[@ebry8225]

Very smart conversation with some awesome Q&A... impressed....

[@BellaVagnini-mf6hj]

Great informative video 😎

[@Gtdr4356]

Milk & cream quotas was another thing taken away from western Canada over the years. Most of the quotas were given to Quebec.

[@valleyviewacres9120]

As a cattle rancher who is in the ag sector actively let me say no truer words have been spoken when you said "they don't change because they don't have to" in 2003 the Canadian beef sector was hit with BSE (mad cow disease) I had just taken over the family ranch and My calf check was basically cut in half. the only option I had was to drastically reduce expenses. So I moved my calving season to spring calving which knocked off a 10,000 dollar manure cleaning bill. I started to graze corn (nobody had even started to grow corn in my area) which decreased my diesel consumption and my feed prep bill by about half. I brought everything down to the point where this operation could survive. But there was ALOT of producers that fell in those years. than in 2016 we started a drought that lasted about 5 years. All of a sudden my corn crop was to expensive to grow (there wasn't even enough of it to get my herd through a winter) my land base was too small for the pastures were burning up too early and couldn't sustain the amount of cattle that was needed to be viable. So again I put pencil to paper and I once again figured it out. I started a fodder growing operation that can produce feed for my cattle for pennies on the dollar. I can now produce feed so cheap (60 cents per head per day, And that cost continues to drop) that if a drought got so bad that those cattle could not graze a single day through the summer I could in fact feed 365 days a year and survive. I am without a shadow of a doubt better off, more resilient and able to, year after year produce food for Canadians..., across multiple generations , than any of the generations that came before me. And I did it because I love this industry and I was not going to accept failure while I was manager of this ranch. And now my kids, who have the same passion as I do, are able to continue on improve upon what I have started and continue to give canada food security.

[@agodelianshock9422]

I think tariffs are the real solution. If these companies are pumping out cheap, unhealthy, low quality products made with slave labor then we need to be punishing that with blanket tariffs to keep our jobs here, our quality high, and our products competitive in price. Minimum 100% tariff on every food product. Then we use those tariffs to ensure a robust and varied food industry here owned and operated by Canadians.

[@revolioclockman8090]

Exactly, "free" trade only exists where there's a level playing field. Chinese farmers get government subsidies. The Chinese government manipulates the value of their currency to outcompete other exporters. Chinese industry can dump in the rivers while we pay a carbon tax. Chinese slave labour vastly exceeds ours (although Tim Hortons is working hard to catch up). We are not the same and should not have to accept inferior goods.

[@shebakoby]

dairy products are already slapped with a 300% tariff coming in to Canada.

[@lindaanderson7502]

The farmer does not get the high price that is paid at the store! Farmers need to have a guaranteed price because of the costs involved in having a dairy farm! You really need to review the actual costs to farming! Do you want to depend on other countries for our food! I disagree that farmers are rich, smaller farms are not rich which is why so many sell their quota which they bought to be able to ship their milk! In my area more than half of the small smaller quit! A farmer works 365 days a year milking twice a day- who would do this and take a loss?

[@revolioclockman8090]

Farmers don't make the high price, the dairy board does, and farmers support it. Why? If the small farmers don't even make much money, why support a cartel that limits what you can sell? This system benefits the big corporate farms, not the family farms that we actually want, as you said. So let's try something else.

[@shebakoby]

Then lobby the government to do what USA does for its farmers: direct subsidization. Makes more sense, and the products would be cheaper and affordable for the poor, instead of stupid-expensive for all.

[@nunyobusinnes]

So you pay a fee to be able to ship what you produce? Sounds like a scam to me. Seems like the m ilk board has small family farms by the shot hairs, and encourages big corporate farms. I suppose the proof of that is the demise of small farms to the tune of what? 95%?

[@shebakoby]

@@nunyobusinnes under this system the dairy conglomerates have only gotten more powerful at the expense of the farmer.

[@MarilynHaley-l8k]

No farm no food no future

[@debbiecharlton2918]

British dairy is so much better tasting than ours.

[@margyeoman3564]

Rather than dumping milk out , wouldn't a bit lower prices and volume sales balance things out some? Also, think of other places for farmers to sell. Pigs love milk, cheese factories need milk. Putting even a little ingenuity in the planning and toward different markets would do wonders.

[@JimTrawick]

Nonsense about all the dairy farmers in Canada going out of business if the dairy board was disbanded.

[@nunyobusinnes]

They might have to compete with new dairy famers in Canada, can't have that.

[@k.dickie8972]

Those who can, work in the private sector. Those who can’t, teach and those who don’t have a clue, work for the government.

[@joeg875]

My uncle just had to shut down our multi generational dairy farm because the government made it unfeasible for him.

[@Anastasia91000]

Thank you for this!

[@canadiangirl5159]

Homemade baby food. Grow your own food and cook from scratch. Both of my daughters made their own baby food. Pumpkins and carrots from the garden, pureed and put into their freezers, plus breastfed. Healthy children. Little nephew formula fed and store bought food, has such allergies. Healthy food healthy people.

[@sheranpaterson2799]

does BC still combine palm oil 2 it's butter which has become almost tasteless ; & does the mrkt. apply fair pricing ?

[@tammyday9389]

I just noticed a slip: the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) was in all three Prairie Provinces and the BC Peace Region. Your guest, I think, just had a "slip" but truly meant to say Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, including the Peace Region of BC. (Just in case listeners didn't know.) Great interview. Great information. Thanks.

[@eyeswideopenn]

So proud of that dairy farmer for sharing that video... and im not shocked his peers did that... reminds me of what happened with peers in the medical community.

[@johncarter5940]

We could have half price and better butter and cheese from USA and we can close all canadian dairy farmers. That tells you how non competitive is canadian dairy

[@marcelstanford430]

Brilliant Clyde, simply brilliant.

[@junegunter2705]

The problem is alot of people hv a budget and they can't afford much milk and milk product

[@cargocat1]

This is one of the best videos I've seen in ages. The Dr. has regular column in the Edmonton Sun and I love his perspectives.Which brings me to my peeve---overpriced cheese. I love cheeses but I refuse to pay the outrageous prices when I shop. Just to keep the diary farmer lobby in business?

[@jannoyes6248]

What ya cant make dry milk out of it anymore. That government dry milk. We could get it in the usa back in the day.

[@garytibo]

Now your friend tell the truth....100% no to any country cutting the price in Canada...THE ONE SMART THING TO DO IS NOT TO TROW AWAY the extra supply...and sell to the one that don't have the food to feed the cow.

[@user-dw2dr6zf3n]

Govt always destroys everything they touch.

[@jimbond7992]

The next food pyramid will probably have bugs instead of meat for proteins

[@ggunn-mf9pm]

Just so you know Grocery stores do no make money on Milk, in Alberta. In Fact we lose money on a 4 litre

[@sircorn4248]

Who’s Milking Whom

[@mikelhenaff110]

Great information, shows how more government regulation doesn't help with innovation and pricing.

[@pierrelefebvre832]

in the 1960 the farmer were dumping their milk in the ditches because of the boards or quotas . The cheese company in my local ,highjack some milk truck to make cheese and even that cheese company are on a quota .

[@rf7869]

What I don't understand is why Canadian TAX Payers are expected to Guarantee the Value of QUOTA---when we give it for FREE?

[@pierrelefebvre832]

we do not produce cars or allowed the US will supply us We do not mfg plans we need to produce pots and pans

[@heatherjones9773]

There would be less lactose intolerance if we could have access to raw milk. I drank raw milk until i was 10 years old that is when the milk board began in NB. It took me over a year to drink milk from the store. Until the milk board came in my milk came directly from the farm down the road from my house. I miss raw milk to this day!

[@nunyobusinnes]

Shame that so many people in Canada will never know what real milk tastes like.

[@jameshoffman3019]

But remember - drugs are OK!!!

[@patrickcowan8701]

Don't cross. La Leche. You'll udderly regret it. They cream their competition.

[@tonydamiani7353]

With 2 and a half million families on the food bank, dumping milk is a disgusting waste. If the dairy cartels are all about fairness for all parties, then the excess should be distributed to food banks.

[@suzancleary611]

My butter does not take 24 hours to soften

[@nunyobusinnes]

How much do you pay for your butter and are you buying Canadian butter?

[@nutsforthebeach]

Less government, more freedom!!!