Thank you for your question.
Supply management is important because it's a good system, based on the cost of production, not on the market. It's a system that really examines the cost of production. What producers are paid is based on their production cost, in other words, an average production cost. That way, every farm is always trying to be more efficient to bring down prices and make the product more affordable for consumers.
Supply management is not based on the global market, so it affords producers stability. We don't make huge profits, but we also don't incur huge losses. We can survive quite a while without making a lot of profit. That's how the system works. It provides predictable conditions. That's the system we chose, and that's the system people want to keep. It does the same thing for consumers. It keeps the price stable, without any major jumps or drops. Producers are able to survive, and consumers have peace of mind that the product will be on store shelves.