Andrew Coyne: What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways

July 23, 2025

The costs of supply management aren’t just borne by consumers generally, but fall most heavily on the poorest – since groceries absorb a much larger share of their budget than those of the better off. Other anti-consumer policies are regressive, but none are quite so regressive as a policy whose whole purpose is to inflate the price of one of the fundamental necessities of life…