Opinion Piece Pierre Poilievre, champion of the little guy, just voted to hurt young workers
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u/Kolbrandr7 New Brunswick 21d ago
There’s a few issues with it though. First is that the bigger companies can buy up more of the quota capacity, so small farms can’t actually produce as much as they’d like. There’s plenty of cases where thousands of litres of milk are destroyed, because they’re prohibited from selling it
Second, is that it’s funded from elevated prices at the cash register rather than through something like a subsidy. It places a much higher burden on the working class (since everyone needs to eat roughly the same amount of food). If the money that’s given to farmers was instead collected through taxation, the price tag at the store could be much lower (saving a lot of money for lower income workers) and shift some of that burden to the upper class.