Tom Stringham

It's past time for the Conservative Party of Canada to end slavish devotion to the supply management cartel. It violates our free market principles, inflates food prices for struggling families, and undermines our global trade interests which impairs other, much larger sectors of Canadian agriculture. All of this to appeal to 9000 quota farmers, half of whom are in Quebec. And this👇is what the pandering has gotten the @CPC_HQ: the dairy lobby wedded to the Liberals. Enough already. Australia and New Zealand have shown the way. Both ended their supply management systems, and saw the sector thrive and grow as a result. Of course, Canada should not do this unilaterally given pressure from the US. As @jengerson has argued, phasing out supply management to benefit Canadians wouldn't require dropping tariffs / quotas on US dairy exports, without reciprocal trade concessions from the US. (As I've noted before, US ag protectionism and subsidies are much broader than Canadian supply management.) Regardless, Conservatives should be true to our principles by reverting to the Reform Party era policy of free market farming. Politically, that would mean championing the interests of 40 million consumers over those of 9000 supply management operators.

1% of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War. Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice. None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice. DEI has gone too far for too long. (BTW, I wonder if the same discriminatory hiring practices apply to janitorial, food services, and facility maintenance jobs. Or does the unjust treatment only apply to "elite" tenure track positions?)