A Niagara police officer went to jail last year for smuggling thousands of dollars of cheese and chicken wings. But whatever the reason, when a compact, easily transportable good can yield a massive return just by schlepping it over an undefended border, the result is a cottage industry of smugglers.
While some blame is also due to the United States’ bad habit for dairy subsidies. Part of this is due to the price-raising nature of artificially limiting supply. Cheese in the non-supply-managed United States is dramatically cheaper than in Canada, with a $200 CDN case of mozzarella from Detroit fetching as much as $300 CDN across the border in Windsor. If you aren’t killed in a hail of bullets from Canadian Border Services, then congratulations: You just made $1000. We have a cheese black market Go to the United States right now, fill up the trunk of your Tercel with bricks of mozzarella and then sneak back across the border. Keep reading, and read our totally biased take on a world of cheese bandits, dessert-starved Newfoundlanders and oceans of perfectly good milk being flushed down the toilet. There are several well-known critiques of supply management: That it’s adding $300 per year to the average Canadian grocery bill, that it’s cursed our country with clunky, uncompetitive farms or that the whole system is basically a giant government-backed cartel to benefit a small cadre of surprisingly rich farmers.īut Canada’s 40-year supply-management experiment is also affecting daily life in all sorts of other bizarre ways. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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