If jokes are allowed on HN still…this is Canada’s version of the U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve right?
The argument, I think, is that if prices are unreliable, customers are turned off from the product and develop new habits that exclude maple syrup. Without it, maple syrup prices would have been ridiculous these past couple years.
It's also how we avoid having to annex Vermont.
https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-...
There's also the Swiss coffee reserve - https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/has-beans_why-is-switz...
> The Swiss government has delayed a decision to scrap the nation’s 15,000-tonne strategic coffee bean reserve after the proposal prompted public and industry jitters. Here’s what you need to know about the issue and why it's been brewing for months.
... though, that's more a strategic reserve.
> Self-reliance is an integral part of Swiss history and economic policy, and the country stocks food, medicines and oil in large quantities to cope with possible shortages. The three-month coffee reserve aims to insulate the land-locked nation from supply disruptions, historically driven by concerns about global conflict although now facing the more immediate threat of global warming and low water levels on the River Rhine shipping route.
They took us outside (or maybe, inside?) of the finished area and got to experience the "true darkness" inside.
Like, you know that you can turn around and go right back around, but honestly, it is so dark in there that it makes your heart race.
It's also like 50-something degrees in there year-round. Pretty cozy. ;)
(I was kind of hoping it'd be a giant pool of maple syrup)
It does seem like a funny thing to do but not when you think about it. Its a commodity. It has a price. Canada controls much of the market. It lasts a long time. Why wouldn’t they have a reserve?
It also seems very rich 21st century to not see immediate value in storing large quantities of food. Surplus is something we take for granted.