Quebec’s milk losses are minimal union says [Video]

The general president of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), Martin Caron, questions a study claiming that Canadian dairy farms have discarded a significant amount of milk over the past decade. He disputes that supply management could be one of the causes of this waste.

“The milk we lose is minimal,” said Caron in an interview with The Canadian Press, following an address to the Montreal Council on International Relations on Thursday afternoon.

“If I compare it to the global average, which is 20 per cent losses, we are far from that here in Quebec. It’s very little here because we produce over 3 billion liters of milk and it’s a few million here and there per year that we risk (losing),” he said, without providing further details.

Several media outlets have reported in recent days the findings of a study conducted by three university researchers: Sylvain Charlebois, of Dalhousie …