Brian B

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Another ANONYMOUS LETTER from a dairy farmer in Ontario highlighting the growing mess created by supply management. And it’s only going to get worse.

"Sylvain, thank you for calling out a misleading idea that Canadian dairy farmers are losing money. In fact, the dairy industry has made some decisions that are now backfiring.

A few years ago, Canada’s main dairy-producing provinces introduced stricter rules to reduce the amount of skim milk—which is often wasted because there’s too much of it and not enough demand. They wanted more butterfat, which is used in products like butter and cream and is in higher demand.

To meet these new rules, farmers found ways to increase the butterfat content in their milk—like feeding cows palm oil supplements (which led to complaints about “hard butter” at the time). This worked: now milk in Ontario has more butterfat than ever—about 4.5% compared to 3.8–4% before.

But this created a new problem: farmers use up their quotas faster because their quota is based on butterfat, not milk volume. So if butterfat is higher, they can ship fewer litres of milk before hitting their limit. To fix this, the industry gave farmers quota increases and extra production days.

Now milk plants (processors) are getting less milk by volume—even if it’s richer in fat. For example, a truck that used to carry 32,000 litres of 4% milk might now carry less milk with 4.5% fat. That’s causing supply issues for processors who still need a certain amount of milk to make products.

Meanwhile, there’s now a surplus of butter and cheese, because the milk coming in is so fatty. They already have as much butter and cheese in storage in January as they’d normally expect to have by summer—when milk production is higher and demand is lower. They’re running out of storage space.

And they can’t just cut milk production, because processors still need it. So they’re stuck in a catch-22.

On top of it all, the high-fat milk is very expensive. In Ontario, raw milk now costs over $102 per 100 litres—while it’s only about $66 in the U.S. That makes Canadian milk production very profitable, if you’re part of the supply-managed system (aka “the club”)."

In short:

➡️Tried to fix a problem (dumping skim milk)
➡️ Created new problems (less volume, storage issues, higher prices)
➡️Industrial milk in Canada is twice as expensive as in the U.S.
➡️Now they’re stuck between needing more milk and having too much fat.

FYI. All this information is public.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

Timely reminder that on April 1 the federal carbon tax increases by 18.75% from $80/tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions to $95/tonne, raising the cost of gasoline by 20.91 cents per litre and natural gas by 18.11 cents per cubic metre since its inception in 2019.
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[Rob Hunter @robfoot]

My dream for today

A tweet

“JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS LOST THE WILL OF THR CANADIAN PEOPLE. IT IS A WASTE OF TIME FOR AMERICANS AND MYSELF TO NEGOTIATE WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL BE GONE SO SOON!

I WILL SUSPEND THE TARIFFS FOR 90 DAYS IF JUSTIN TRUDEAU CALLS AN IMMEDIATE ELECTION!”

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Famous Canadian celebs in the US are notably absent in standing up for Canada when many of them are quite vocal on US policy issues. For them, it's always been a transactional relationship with the country where they were born and raised, and to which they owe a lot.

[mark normand @marknorm]

She got smashed

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

🇨🇦’s public safety minister just said less than 1% of 🇺🇸’s fentanyl is from 🇨🇦, and ditto for illegal immigrants.

Here's why that's a whopper of a lie. Warning: Your opinion of 🇨🇦 will irreversibly change.

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[Anthony Furey @anthonyfurey]

Freeland’s resignation letter doesn’t say a single nice thing about Trudeau. In fact, she mocks him for his “political gimmicks”.

What does it say about the man and his leadership that he can’t ever manage a clean break from a colleague?

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The pro-carbon tax propaganda continues.

The Toronto Star’s @aballinga reports on an unpublished, non-peer-reviewed study funded by Environment Canada, claiming the carbon tax has no impact on food prices in Canada.

Meanwhile, we have two peer-reviewed studies in high-ranking journals presenting a different perspective (see links below). Additionally, 11 papers set to be published in January will highlight how carbon pricing can exacerbate social and economic inequities. @TondaMacC @TorontoStar

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

If Kamala Harris wins, the US will look a lot like Canada under Justin Trudeau.

[QuickDickMcDick 🇨🇦 @QuickDickMcDick]

@andrewfeinstein I wear this for veterans, not for your bullshit.

[Duncan Dee 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @duncandee]

Spooky

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

BREAKING: Shocking new study today reveals over 6 billion liters of Canadian farm milk wasted over last decade while food prices are still rising.

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

That's how we do it in the 313! #RepDetroit

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The latest $400 MILLION Liberal scandal: Trudeau’s friends funnelled $400 million taxpayers’ dollars to their own companies with 186 conflicts of interest.

Now Trudeau paralyzes Parliament because he refuses to provide incriminating documents to the RCMP.

[Mike Kakuk @radiomike519]

Did you hurt yourself jumping on the @tigers bandwagon? #mlbplayoffs #callsam

[Brian B @kinreb]

@WatcherAfar the replies on that post are incredible

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

POV: you’re in the clubhouse with the Gritty Tigs (again)

[Brian B @kinreb]

@mindpumpsal I think that would be more like 99%

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

"A city that doesn't care about the odds has a baseball team to match."