Canada-Europe free trade agreement could be final in 6 months

[giblets]

I hate Quebec for making me agree with Ben on something. Quebec

[Fake Boris]

Why dairy and poultry, but not grains, vegetables, beef, fish, etc?

Much less perishable.

[notyoueither]

Can you explain why being perishable is important?

[Fake Boris]

Forces you to manage supply tightly, reduces fungibility.

[Fake Boris]

This is an article from 2009 (in French) where a Conservative minister is saying that quotas will not be put into question.

Do they still believe in it?

http://www.lacra.net/upload/File/CommerceInt-GestionOffre-Mesly.pdf

[Tupac Shakur]

Forces you to manage supply tightly, reduces fungibility.

I don't think you understand what "fungibility" is.

[Fake Boris]

What's the precise term then? you got the point.

[giblets]

What is the worst case scenario if Quebec ceases to be dairy independent? Will Quebecers be getting a taste of Norway's calamitous butter shortage?

[Tupac Shakur]

you got the point.

No, I didn't, unless the "point" was that you're an idiotic filosofer who likes using big words that he doesn't understand.

[Fake Boris]

What is the worst case scenario if Quebec ceases to be dairy independent? Will Quebecers be getting a taste of Norway's calamitous butter shortage?

Negatives
Most cow farms close (and unlike Obi Wan's opinion that it's better to work minimum wage and pay 30% less for cheese than to own your farm, no it isn't)
Are replaced by large exploitations or imports
Expect specific cow races to go extinct, quality to decline, diversity of taste to disappear
Lobbying made easier

Positive
Makes it easier for farmers to get into value-added milk products, leaving large-scale supply to large-scale ****ty conglomerates.

[Fake Boris]

No, I didn't, unless the "point" was that you're an idiotic filosofer who likes using big words that he doesn't understand.

Milk is fungible, but its perishability makes it harder to benefit from its fungibility.

A good is fungible if one unit of the good is substantially equivalent to another unit of the same good of the same quality at the same time and place.

Where "same time and place" becomes larger and larger as perishability diminishes.

You're a worthless piece of ****.

[Tupac Shakur]

Milk is fungible, but its perishability makes it harder to benefit from its fungibility.

This makes absolutely no sense.

A good is fungible if one unit of the good is substantially equivalent to another unit of the same good of the same quality at the same time and place.

Where "same time and place" becomes larger and larger as perishability diminishes.

And this is even dumber. Wow...

[Fake Boris]

So it doesn't make sense to you that electronic currency exchanges make it easier to benefit from the fungibility of a currency denomination.

You are one astonishing moron indeed

[HalfLotus]

Is this gonna be like NAFTA where they put together 10,000 pages of rules, regulations, restrictions, and taxes and call it "Free Trade"?

[regexcellent]

Why do you care if the farmers who make your milk are in Quebec or elsewhere?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I guess the "food independence" thing