About the author -- Acronyms -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Dairy and the inevitability of surpluses -- Agricultural exceptionalism -- Canada: a brief history of dairy -- Supply management in the post-Uruguay round context -- The comprehensive economic and trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific partnership -- The benefits of supply management -- The future of supply management -- Works cited -- About CIGI -- CIGI masthead
Summary
Canada's system of dairy supply management, where domestic supply is matched with domestic demand, has come under fire in recent years, criticized for being a regulated model in an increasingly deregulated world. This background paper explores the historical evolution of dairy in Canada, and why supply management was eventually implemented in the 1960s, bringing rationality and organization to an industry where none had existed before. It also examines the role of international trade negotiations, largely sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and, after 1995, by the World Trade Organization (WTO), in addressing issues of agricultural protectionism and exceptionalism
