LIB/NDP vs Status quo

[mustardman]

Fiscal-Conservative is an Oxymoron.
Just look at Alberta, all the years of oil wealth and can't balance the books

[bucket]

Solutions. Been told to my MP.


1. Reporting
2. More capacity
3. Better regulation not more, better.
4. A vision how to get there.

Pretty simple. I am not an MP but they could at least make a start.

[blackpowder]

I submit we may be better off with a two party system.
The ndp has been in the fringe so long its promised more to unions than it can ever pay. Look at some CFIB numbers for small business taxes and start ups in the provinces. Ndp provinces at the bottom.
Prince Justin does not have yet, if ever, the right stuff. Both parties promise things to a certain segment of population that can not be paid for. Big Business isnt all evil. Both play to the sense of growing entitlement. On the fringe they resort to talking radical.
Leaving everyone else in the country forced to vote con. Two parties would better integrate the issues. And perhaps neither would be in longer than two terms. That does no one any good either.
I see a minority next time?

[tweety]

And what's the problem with upov 91?

[mustardman]

tweety fast forward a few years. Every current variety has been Deregistered and only the so called New and improved royalty sucking varieties are available.

Actually they won't be new or improved only the royalty amount will be New and Improved (for bayer,syngenta etc)
Ritz and harper will have moved on from politics with a briefcase full of bling from corporate seed that were so appreciative for the help.

[farmaholic]

Boy is this off track. But how did UPOV78 prevent them from doing what they wanted.
When I buy certified seed there are royalties I paid. Seriously, why did it need to be improved? As far as I am concerned this is the first step onto the slippery slope. Hang on folks your in for the slip of your farming life. More costs... and likely every acre over time...

[mustardman]

farmaholic yes indeed As Farmers, with Friends like the Conservative party we DONT need any ENEMIES

[FarmRanger]

<i>"Every current variety has been Deregistered and only the so called New and improved royalty sucking varieties are available."</i>
Cut the bullsh**. All the current varieties are grandfathered into their respective classes and barring some extraordinary circumstances, varieties aren't flippantly de-registered, and certainly not all the publicly owned varieties we have now. In addition there is nothing in UPOV 91 that makes deregistration any more likely than it was in UPOV 78.

[sawfly]

it is a predicament .
black powder , your over reaching quite
a bit. about union connections .
and other statements about GST. and CWB
are completely out to lunch.
(not gonna happen)

while a liberal / ndp combo would be thin on ag issues. that might be a good thing compared to what we have been getting.

a government that simply does what big business wants all the time . is how you end with the Alberta heritage Fund debacle .
Alberta with 17 billion fund that could be burnt up in
4 budget deficits .

compared to Norway with a trillion
dollar rainy day fund .(lefty govt. there)

No comparison, higher royalties, and only allowing them selves to take out 4% per year, from the fund.(management)

if Alberta had come up to Sask.s old royalty structure, instead of Sask. going down to match Alberta's .
it might have been a whole different story. fund wise (too late now)

i do not know if a lib. / ndp would be any better on the rail road / transportation issue .

but really , how could they be any worse?

ignore and deny the problem exists , then come up with a tiny little fine and a pretend threat.

an exporting nation , and it's transport system is a mess and that is the response.

How could it be more pathetic.

a year and half later and no attempt to even understand or fix or monitor, to see what could be done.

Mulclair has said a few dumb things,
other than that , he is not stupid. and Trudeau is well a bit of fluff.

but given power, responsibility .
maybe between the 2 of them , and their parties, some actual management
could happen.

it could not be worse than the Harper dictatorship since the majority.
one sell out after another.

conservatives have no lock on financial prudence, far from it.

[BreadWinner]

Sawfly did you come up with and ideas to improve ag in all that gobblygoop or you just another whiner just like all the rest of the politicians. All hot air and no good ideas....