[bryanlarsen]

There's good cheese in Eastern Ontario, although that's probably part of the Quebec tradition.

I think that protectionism is helping to produce quality cheese in Canada. Sure, good cheese costs $20/kg, but since crappy cheese often costs $15/kg, the delta doesn't seem too bad. If it was $5 vs $10, it'd seem a lot worse.

Dairy quotas are currently worth about $44,000 a cow. That's even crazier than taxi medallions being worth $250,000. With such strong evidence of a harmful monopoly you'd think Canadians would be rioting in the street, but it seems most Canadians support keeping dairy quotas.