The media assault on supply management

Maclean’s national editor Andrew Coyne has led the charge against supply management. But University of Waterloo history professor Bruce Muirhead has emerged as a defender, with George Morris Centre economist Larry Martin taking the middle ground

by DON STONEMAN

University of Waterloo history professor Bruce Muirhead points to an article published last year in New Zealand’s Waikato Times and wonders why the critics of Canada’s dairy supply management system look to that country as an example of how dairy trade ought to work.

Better Farming - January 2012