PM Harper answers questions at SARM

[grower99]

Where does Trudeau say he will bring back the gun registry. Just asking. My goodness, we spend time discussing gun legislation when we are going to lose our hard fought freedom,our economy is in the basement,our ag issues are numerous,fraud and unethical behaviour is rampant in the govt,our international image is a joke,this govt cannot get XL done....

[perfecho]

Guns need not be registered, but you do. So if you have guns at home, and have had them along time, but your not registered, your basically in the same boat as registration.....

[perfecho]

Just a way of living up to an election promise, but not really.....

[blackpowder]

Well I got the expected response. Too funny.
Allan Rock said only the military and police should own firearms. It took decades to push the pendulum back for a while. Sound familiar?
Decades of working patiently with the halls of power no matter the party finally got a small reward re: _ _ _. Our industry has issues left to deal with, the RRs being a part. The way some of you carry on here, it's no wonder the govt doesn't respond. Regardless of party.
Get your shit together and prepare for decades of talking.
Alberta needs an opposition I agree. Wildrose is again a laughing stock judging by local candidates.
The federal conservatives days are numbered of course. We all know where the other party's power base is. The Libtards we may have but no one in their right mind out in the real world would vote for JT.

[grower99]

Have you read JT's book. Have you read Harperland,A Party of One or googled Northern Foundation and our PM's role in founding this organization? Just asking.

[parsley]

Well CptnObvious, I just got an email from someone who remembers that farmers got jailed for selling their wheat, lest we forget.

And he well knows it was a Liberal Party of Canada government who made damn good and sure farmers got jailed.

John Turcato spent time in jail. Jim Chatenay and Ron Duffy went to jail. Three months. Bill Moore went to jail. Did you every hear of a guy by the name of McMeachan? His name is Andy McMeachan and they put him in chains in the courtroom in front of his children, because he trucked grain from his farm in Manitoba into the US. He had a farm on the US side as well.

And Liberal Party of Canada MP from Wascana, Ralph Goodale, was the Minister of Agriculture at the time, and he wanted to make an example out of Andy so other farmers would be scared to market their grain.

And all because the LPC thought farmers are too stupid to sell their own grain. They believe that the government should be marketing your grain for you. Ralph Goodale championed that notion. The son of a bitch.

In other words, farmers are capable of running their own million dollar farms, but are too incompetent, too rural, too dumb, too uneducated, and too scared to sell their grain.

And you didn't know, CaptnObvious.

Yes well. As the guy who knows marketing inside out emailed me, it appears you're trying to re-write history.

And if you are worth a bushel of wheat, captain, you should apologize to every farmer who was jailed, that you have forgotten was jailed.

Farmers are one step away from being like the Ukraine if Ralph Goodale became the Minister of Agriculture in a Liberal government.

We have marketing freedom, thanks so Prime Minister Harper's government. Let's make sure we don't lose it because of the central planners and the truly stupid.

Parsley

[grower99]

It seems to me that in an era of tough on crime if you break the law you do the time.Just because you don't like a law does that mean you break it? Does that apply to seat belts,child support,dui,speeding...Sorry your argument doesn't hold water.I don't think public servants have to get fingerprinted and their bank accounts audited to keep or get a job. What happens to them if they refuse to comply?

[bucket]

Parsley

Farmers were never too stupid to market their grain.

They are just too stupid to find a government that can have a law to move it. Better to keep growing bins along with grain. That's a recipe for success.

Yup sure is. No sense in moving grain thru a system that should be one of the most efficient on the planet.

Funny thing is when the auto industry was on its knees they didn't ignore it.

Nope they invested in it.

[TOM4CWB]

BTW CptnObvious,

I was at Coutts... watched and heard the Customs offers tell grain farmers

TO REMOVE THEIR GRAIN TRUCKS... AND GO HOME.

I refused to obey these orders... and they were forced to tow my grain truck to Milk River... as there was NO impound yard in Coutts to hold the vehicles. It cost Customs well over a thousand dollars to hold my truck, they returned my truck and all my bond money... after they admitted I had done nothing wrong.

[TOM4CWB]

Jim Chatenay gave a sack of grain to a 4-H club in Sweetgrass... and he was first aquitted (As it was a peaceful demonstration)... then federal crown appealed the judgment... won... and sent Duffy, Chatenay, and many others to prison in Lethbridge AB.

Neighbours around Penhold harvested Jim Chatenays crop... while he was in the solitary block of the prison... because the officials were concerned the other inmates would harm them.