Quick notes

[bucket]

It's a quoted article ....sorry.

I was wrong....

Would be nice if everyone used the same terms instead of getting lost in translation.

[Klause]

No problem... The confusion comes from "Toor Dal" which is a split pigeon pea....


Having said all this, I could see an import duty on red lentils coming in... They have a big crop, and the government doesn't want to pay farm subsidies so artificially raising the price inside the country is a good way to do that...

Unfortunately, Canada has a bad habit of developing 1 market for each commodity, instead of developing a lot of markets and picking the highest priced one to supply... Probably easier said than done, granted, but We could be shipping lentils to Iran, Bangladesh, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia right now, instead of waiting for India to decide their ag policy.

[bucket]

What forces dictate where our product gets sold?

20 million starving in Africa and there is no market? Canada could have paid farmers here 120 million for grain and called it aid. .....instead of writing cheques to other nations farmers and dictators......


If the boats out west are not contracted...there is part of the solution...then shooting the controlling gangs in the helpless countries to get the food to where it belongs....oops the foil ripped....

[sumdumguy]

If the government really wanted to make a difference to starving Africans, they could put criminals to work producing wheat and pulse food products and shipping them to villages instead if pouring millions into the war mongers' pockets.

[bucket]

120 million Canada gave...poof ... gone....no one knows where.....


And then add in Haiti where nothing has been done.....

But tax farmers here. ...

[sk_wheatking]

20 million starving in Africa and there is no market? Canada could have paid farmers here 120 million for grain and called it aid. .....instead of writing cheques to other nations farmers and dictators......



Wow this is what I have been saying! Instead of the feds throwing hundreds of millions away on "aid" why not buy the grain from farmers who will re invest that money into the economy, then give the grain to Africa for example as aid. Can anyone see what the problem is with this??? It wouldn't be looked at as a subsidy either because there is a product being sold.

[bucket]

I see the problem ....identify it...then get told I am wrapped in tin foil....then my mla and mps basically tell me to **** off...one did....

[Klause]

If you want to do that sign up as a vendor for WFP


International conventions govern food aid. You can just show up with a ship of lentils and go here ya go in a foreign country.

[bucket]

No that's Trudeau's responsibility. ...he is the guy writing out the cheques.....not me.

You would think most country's head of state would ensure his own people get paid first rather than buying food aid from somewhere else.


Trudeau sent 120 million recently to 4 African nations. ...a complete waste...

[Klause]

International conventions designate organizations that can provide food aid.


Further, those conventions also lay out the manner in which these organizations can procure food aid... I.e. first from within the country then regionally then continentally and finally globally.


Every country gives aid the same way Canada does because thanks to international agreements all our countries signed that's what they have to do.