# BEST OF 2025: How a few rich dairy farmers are sabotaging Canada’s big, beautiful trading future

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Podcast: [Full Comment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/full-comment-3692394)
Published: 2025-12-22T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. As in July, Canada’s restricted dairy market was recently raised again by U.S. officials who say it stands in the way of ending disputes and settling trade deals. This summer, Brian spoke with Martha Hall Findlay about how Ottawa’s refusal to liberate our globally detested supply-management system from trade negotiations continues to hurt our economic potential while causing endless headaches with major trading partners — all to benefit of a few thousand dairy-farmer millionaires. In this episode, Hall Findlay explains how this small cartel works, why it’s so powerful and why it hurts not just consumers, but every other trade-exposed Canadian business. (Originally recorded July 4, 2025) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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