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It's worth noting that supply management is a type of central planning where we centrally determine how much we'll produce and what the price of production will be.
Individual, often small, farmers then produce those eggs and get paid this price. The price and quantities are set so that it's sustainable for farmers to produce. Farmers have the certainty they'll sell their product at a decent price. They aren't at the mercy of the market putting them underwater after they've spent large amounts of capital to produce.
Consumers pay a generally higher price for eggs than the absolute minimum possible, but we also avoid paying much higher prices during shocks and shortages. Our farming sector isn't consolidated by necessity of achieving the lowest price.
We do this with more than eggs.
I mean, central planning would be more like the dairy board, but both the prices they sell for and the prices the farmers pay to suppliers are fixed at weird values, so they never can afford quite enough containers for the amount of product they produce, and have no reason to add new cheeses until things build to a crisis point and politicians are involved.
Nothing is centrally controlled outside of what a normal business controls AFAIK, so it's more of a plain legally enforced monopoly, like monarchs used to grant by letters of patent.
That sounds like socialism which is bad because it's bad. Look what happened in Canada, they didn't pay animal and worker abusingly low prices and now they don't have insanely high prices. Without causing these situations they are denying large parts of their population high sustained cortisol levels.
This is why we need to maintain our threats of annexation. We must provide them the stress that their government denies them.
Broiler chickens, dairy, and other poultry industries have this.
We should bring it back for crops (return of CWB)?
I think Harper sold it to the Saudis. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some provisions that bind Canada to not create a new board. With that said we should absolutely create a new board. Use the crisis. I guess we'll see how much of a Keynesian Carney is. Assuming we elect him of course.
Harper did more damage to Canada than almost any other PM (selling CWB, signing the FIPPA with China, etc). The fact that he's back here (secretly?) advising PP makes me sick to my stomach.