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Uhhhh, Canada restricts American dairy in a variety of ways.
BECAUSE OUR STANDARDS ARE STRICTER.
Live up to them, or fuck off, America.
If you can’t live up to the rules, you can’t play the game.
It's not just the standards. It's also that we use central planning for these sectors which allows for small farms distributer around the country to survive along with the communities around them. If we let the free market deal with it, it'll all get reformed into large factory farms with the surplus value extracted away from the local communities and into large capital owners. Then our rural farming communities get plunged into poverty.
As far as I understand it, that system is also why our eggs still cost normal amounts. (If a farm has to cull their birds because of avian flu, it's not millions of chickens.)
Why's that not a concern for literally anything else?
Why is IKEA allowed to operate, why can I buy shoes at Walmart when Canadian cobblers exist?
We either benefit from globalization or we don't, isn't that much at least true?
Well, it's untrue that globalization is a binary true or false benefit, though on the surface it's a logical question.
Until you consider sovereignty. Particularly food sovereignty. It's more than strategic, it's the foundation of a stable, rule-of-law society. So it’s more than economics, it's a governmental social responsibility, and self-preservation.
Supply management is a success in Canada, despite some problems, because it stabilizes society, as more small farms is more desirable in many ways than big centralized ag.
And you are right, there are a number of economic sectors we could look more closely at with a mind towards sovereignty, maybe including footwear and furniture, though food and medicines come first.