China to buy or lease farm land...

[jensend]

one chinese a day for years? care to document that? what drivel.

[TOM4CWB]

Jensend;

Check out:

http://archives.cbc.ca/society/immigration/topics/1433/

In wikipedia.org:

Immigration for the railway
Chinese railway workers made the main labour force to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. When British Columbia agreed to join Confederation in 1871, one of the conditions was that the Dominion government build a railway linking B.C. with eastern Canada within 10 years. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, wanted to cut costs by employing Chinese to build the railway, and summarized the situation this way to Parliament in 1882: "It is simply a question of alternatives: either you must have this labour or you can't have the railway."[3].

In 1880, Andrew Onderdonk, an American who was the Canadian Pacific Railway construction contractor in British Columbia, originally enlisted Chinese labourers from California. When most of these deserted the railway workings for the goldfields, signed several agreements with Chinese gangs in China's Guangdong province and their representatives in Victoria. Through those contracts more than 5000 labourers were sent from China by ship. Onderdonk also recruited over 7000 Chinese railway workers from California. These two groups of workers were the main force for the building of the railway. Some of them fell ill during construction or died while planting explosives or in other construction accidents. By the end of 1881, the first group of Chinese labourers, which was previously numbered at 5000, had less than 1500 remaining as a large number had deserted for the goldfields away from the rail line Onderdonk needed more workers, so he directly contracted Chinese businessmen in Victoria, California and China to send many more workers to Canada.

Onderdonk engaged these Chinese labour contractors who paid Chinese workers only $1 a day while white, black and native workers were paid three times that amount. Chinese railway workers were engaged for 500 kilometres of the Canadian Pacific Railway considered by some to be the most dangerous section of the railway, notably the area that goes through the Fraser Canyon. As with railway workers on other parts of the line in the Prairies and northern Ontario, most of the Chinese workers lived in tents. These canvas tents were often unsafe, and did not provide adequate protection against falling rocks or severe weather in areas of steep terrain. Such tents were typical of working-class accommodations on the frontier for all immigrant workers although (non-Chinese) foremen, shift bosses and trained railwaymen recruited from the UK were housed in sleeping cars and railway-built houses in Yale and the other railway towns. Chinese railway workers also established transient Chinatowns along the rail line, with housing at the largest comprised of log-houses half dug into the ground, which was a common housing style for natives as well as other frontier settlers (because of the insulating effect of the ground in an area of extreme temperatures).


[edit] Chinese in Canada after the completion of the CPR
After the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, many Chinese were left with no work. The government of Canada passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 levying a "Head Tax" of $50 on any Chinese coming to Canada. After the 1885 legislation failed to deter Chinese immigration to Canada, the government of Canada passed The Chinese Immigration Act, 1900 to increase the tax to $100, and The Chinese Immigration Act, 1904 further increased the landing fees to $500, equivalent to $8000 in 2003.[4] - as compared to the Right of Landing Fee, or Right of Permanent Residence Fee, of merely $975 per person paid by new immigrants in 1995-2005, and further reduced to $490 in 2006.[5]

The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, better known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, replaced prohibitive fees with an outright ban on Chinese immigration to Canada with the exceptions of merchants, diplomats, students, and "special circumstances" cases. The Chinese that entered Canada before 1923 had to register with the local authorities and could leave Canada only for two years or less. Since the Exclusion Act went into effect on July 1, 1923, Chinese at the time referred to Dominion Day as "Humiliation Day" and refused to celebrate Dominion Day until after the act was repealed in 1947..[citation needed]"

I am sure... Jensend... you can find many and various accounts of the abuse against the Chinese in Canada.

You do have a GOOGLE... 'GO' button... don't you?

[jensend]

you said one a day on that one bridge. tom you started this thread to try and smack the cwb again and it was a lame effort that fell apart. i've had my fun with this now i'm done.

[cottonpicken]

Anyone read Sun Tzu?

[parsley]

cp, are you training concubines instead of seeding?lol

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

[Vader]

"taking whole"

[parsley]

Vader,

Sun Tzu's addage about knowing yourself and knowing your enemy is what has caused the Wheat Board lifeblood of support to slowly drain away.

Knowing the CWB: Making farmers comply through force.

Knowing Farmers: They want co-operations and choice. Who in their right mind doesn't?


Parsley

PS Vader,




Sun Tzu advised: In practical marketing, the best thing is to steal the competitors market intact; to do negative marketing and create resentment is not so good.

Sun Tzu probably gave the CWB the idea to "steal" all the customers from organic farmers,(peeping at the names on the export licenses) and then run them out of business through regulation....deny, deny deny liceses.

To steal "the whole" as you so nicely reminded us Vader.

When is the CWB going to begin to deny export license buybacks to organic applicants, so the CWB doens't have to compete against the farmer?

New crop year B of D motion , did you say?

Not surprised.

Parsley

[bucket]

Foreign ownership does not just happen. Some board has to approve the deal.

Lets look at IPSCO for an example. Canadian mom and dad steel plant turned into one of the most successful steel co. in North America. At the time of its disposal to the Swedes it was being run by David Sutherland. He was born in Moose Jaw, sask. Quite a nice fellow until he decided he could make alot of money for himself by negotiating a selling price instead of continuing to expand and grow like his predecessors did. Now its owned by the Russians.

The point of the dribble is that its the Canadian board of directors that sit on these companies that sell out not the shareholders (they are technically sheep). Once someone starts the wheel rolling its hard to stop.

Here's another example. Apparently the story goes that one of the latest farmer of the year fellows sells his 5 generation farm to an investment company ( thinking of himself he puts lots of money in his pocket) with the agreement to lease it back. The investment co. allows him to do that until they see a major capital gain and sell the land. Poof, the farmer of the year is no longer a farmer. Good example - not likely.

Its simple - greed will sell out our farmland and the likes of Vader will be lining his pocket championing the cause - typical Liberal running the cwb. (Actually I believe tthat Stewie Wells is running the cwb now with all this investment in organics but thats another thread.)

[cottonpicken]

Funny you picked that.
I refuse to work more than 110 hours a week at anything-except training concubines!

Sun tzu is required reading of all asian business men.

If we are in the middle of economic war it may be time to push the panic button."If" that is.