Money for airlines

[the big wheel]

Geez I'm good at derailing threads. How did we get from "money for airlines" to grain contracts?

Damn marketing forum, how does that marketing stuff creep into unrelated topics?

Lol if I would have seen your better explanation sooner I wouldn’t have posted mine for how the targets work.

What else can we say about airlines anyway? Lol

Actually the topic is about how industry reps are effective. Our ag reps certainly are not. All our farm groups have become or maybe always were politicized. For example as mentioned apas is just a sub group for the sask party. It’s so obvious they never question anything the government does at all. A few times when farmers start threatening to cancel them they put out a meaningless paper that they never follow through on.
Appear to be ass ickers just waiting for the next sask party mla candidate to retire so they can be the next one to be useless and collect the best pension there is to do nothing.
Smooth control move by the sask party but a complete waste of farmers money going through the rm.

[farmaholic]

Nothing wrong with your post BW. Another similar point of view verifies the problem.

[GALAXIE500]

Sometimes I think all the APAS Reps are is tax dollar tit suckers.

Have they single handedly made a difference on any issue.
Maybe they have, please list them.

Out of 296 Sask Rural Municipalities, 137 have APAS membership. Two Reps out of each of the six districts makes up the BOD.

I think it is high time we went down to about 150 RMs instead of the current 296. My RM has a $ 500,000 gravel budget for 9 townships . Time to trim some fat boys , and I am sure it goes on in a lot of RMs in this province.

[MBgrower]

90% of air travel is completely unnecessary, a government truly concerned about the environment/climate change would recognize this and perhaps encourage a downsizing, much like they are doing to the energy sector.

[bucket]

90% of air travel is completely unnecessary, a government truly concerned about the environment/climate change would recognize this and perhaps encourage a downsizing, much like they are doing to the energy sector.

No MP is going to go against subsidizing the airlines...how are they to get away to Ottawa to phuck the dog or someone else?

[farmaholic]

Our RM is sitting on 2.6 million in fairly liquid assets.
Almost no liabilities.
Accumulated surplus of 6.2 million.

But I sure can't complain about the mill rate and services are decent. A bit is a bone to pick about the "shape" of the road surface(crown versus flat that poorly sheds rain---- whenever that happens here)

[bucket]

This is what minister Joly said..."Many other countries in the world go ahead and support their regional routes through subsidies, including the U.S.,"


Now if our farm groups can't piggy back on that statement there is something wrong with them....

And Trump has sent out or promised the equivalent of 75 billion CDN to American farmers so far and its not over.....

[Oliver88]

90% of air travel is completely unnecessary, a government truly concerned about the environment/climate change would recognize this and perhaps encourage a downsizing, much like they are doing to the energy sector.

This is a valid point. It seems as though climate alarmists love flying especially to warm destinations in January.

[furrowtickler]

So Melanie Joly said other countries support their airlines regionally...


And where the phuck are our farm leaders asking the exact same question for farmers?

Disclaimer...I didn't mean to like my own thread....I was scrolling and hit like button without realizing it.

A big thank you from Trudeau for spreading the virus all over Canada as fast as possible

[LEP]

I think it is high time we went down to about 150 RMs instead of the current 296. My RM has a $ 500,000 gravel budget for 9 townships . Time to trim some fat boys , and I am sure it goes on in a lot of RMs in this province.

Have you tried buying gravel lately? It aint getting any cheaper. Our RM has its own pit. But that won't last forever. Depending on the amount of rain we use between 50 and 80,000 yards a year. At $28 a yard if you had to pay full bore, it becomes a big number quick. Plus the cost to spread.

Just a note. The cost has gone up substantially in the last two years because of the infrastructure projects.