Thank you.
I'd also add that supply management is certainly not a panacea. It works very well and much better than non-supply management for certain sectors, where you can have a little more control over the environment of your growing conditions and some of the inputs, but certainly supply management has its own problems.
For non-supply management crops, or crops that don't have supply management now, we also have issues of a lot more differences in varieties, qualities, grades, and standards, and a lot more exports and imports of different varieties. I wouldn't say there's only one type of egg or one type of milk, but there certainly are a lot fewer than there are types of apples.
On your comment that the power the highly unified marketing now holds is tremendous, just think of a variety like an Ambrosia--which I hope you're all eating. It's a lovely new apple, bred in B.C. A few years ago it was earning the growers 50¢ a pound on average. This year, for apples in general, the average that fruit growers will be getting is 12¢ a pound. There's no change in price at retail. There's something going on in between the farmer and the retailer. The farmer is getting less and the consumer doesn't see any difference in the price.
Supply management is not necessarily something that would be easy to move apples into.