There are two things. As you probably know, some countries have actually gotten rid of systems that were fairly similar, like New Zealand and Australia, and New Zealand has taken over the dairy products. They have better conditions to produce dairy products.
I've travelled in Wisconsin and parts of the upper Midwest where, honestly, conditions are not so different from those in Quebec. I've never understood the argument that Quebec couldn't compete with regions that had similar climates and similar soil conditions. What makes Quebec producers less effective is that they're smaller and they don't generate the kinds of economies of scale that you've seen in liberalized markets.
I'm with you in that I don't like the U.S. farm bill, but at the same time, if I'm looking at that as a taxpayer, I don't see how having dairy products that are more expensive and penalizing our food processors is actually good for us.
As you probably know, the cost of sugar in Canada has historically been lower than in the U.S., because we don't protect our corn and sugar beet producers. A lot of candy manufacturers a few years ago relocated to Canada, because with the cost of sugar being lower they could produce candy here and ship it back to the U.S. The same was true for chocolate.
Canada's dairy products ended up in Canadian chocolate that was being reshipped to the U.S. It's Canadian dairy products, and if our dairy products had been even more competitive, I believe that we would have shipped even more chocolate to the U.S.