Trump's Government Spent $1 Billion Fighting an Egg Crisis. It Never Called Canada.

By The Decision Room

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In the winter and spring of 2025, American grocery stores put signs on the egg case: limit two dozen per customer. Wholesale prices in New York hit $8.53 a dozen. Waffle House added a surcharge. Some families decorated potatoes for Easter because eggs got too expensive to dye. A few hundred miles north, nothing happened. No shortage, no rationing, no surcharges. Bird flu killed the same wild birds, crossed the same open sky — but Canada's egg farms average about 25,000 hens, while many American mega-farms hold over a million under one roof. When disease hits a Canadian farm, it's a real loss for that family. When it hits an American mega-farm, it can wipe out a meaningful share of a state's entire supply overnight. The reason traces back to Canada's 1970s "supply management" system — production quotas matched to domestic demand, and tariffs over 200% blocking a flood of cheap imports. It kept Canadian shelves full for a fraction of the volatility. But it also means Canada never built

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