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A Canadian farmer doesn’t need to seek an industry group’s permission before planting a new field of wheat or starting up a hog pen as a side hustle. But dairy industry groups will freely tell farmers that if they buy an unapproved milk cow, they’re breaking Canadian law.
As to how dairy came to hold such an outsized influence on Canadian politics, one reason is that supply managed farms are disproportionately concentrated in Quebec and Ontario ridings that have a penchant to swing elections.Article content Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer drinks from a carton of milk at the 2017 National Press Gallery Dinner in Gatineau, Quebec after making a joke about being in the pocket of dairy farmers.dairy lobbyists such as the Dairy Farmers of Canada devote immense time and resources towards currying political favour, and you’ll turn up just short of 7,000 results. By contrast, the word “lumber” yields only 1115 results and the word “beef” turns up only 456.
Dairy influence was most notably felt in the 2017 Conservative Party leadership race. In a close race between the pro-supply management Andrew Scheer and the anti-supply management Maxime Bernier, it was a cadre of voters mobilized by the dairy sector that
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