Liberals Propose changes to CAIS

[melvill]

Okay wedino, how did you do that? Nobody is supposed to be able to do that.

Please send me your "how to" by e-mail to lee.melvill@gov.ab.ca

Thanks.

[avmayor]

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[AdamSmith]

How thoughtful of the Liberals to want to fix their own disaster.

You know the Liberal Ag Policy lo9oks stikeingly similar to CFA policy and CFA was the main architects of the disasterous ag policy for the liberals for the last thirteen years.

Oh by the way Agstar just heard fro someone in the know that the government was bombarded with indignant letters from farmers about the CWB and task force and such, these letters cam from farmers from all over MB, Sask. and Alb. but the funny thing was, every letter sent came from the same fax machine, and the fax number was the NFU's Saskatoon office fax number. Isn't that just hilarious.
So atleast the farmer members of the wheatgrowers knew better than to follow up on a stupid idea from some bozo bureaucrat, the NFU go right on ahead and do the exact thing they are suposedly indignant about in the firs place.

Truly that has to be the most hilarious thing I've heard of in a long time Agstar, wouldn't you agree?

[AdamSmith]

Sorry for all the misspelling, it's hard to type and wipe the tears from your eyes because your laughing so hard.

[agstar77]

This whole episode shows that the real problems are being ignored over the philisophical dispute about the CWB. By the way A.S., when did two wrongs make a right?

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77;

Perhaps the CWB could start issuing export licenses to grain growers in the "designated area" like they do for any other grain grower in Canada.

Since the CWB must maintain the price inside and outside Canada the same under NAFTA... obviously there is no pecuniary benefit enuring the "designated area" grower applicant.... just the same as in the rest of Canada.

Plus,

The CWB Act requires any benefit to go to the Receiver for Canada... not the pooling accounts.


I couldn't agree more Agstar77 two wrongs don't make what the CWB is doing right!

Seed wheat and barley, Manufactured feed with wheat and barley... the list goes on and on... of how the CWB ignores reality and issues (or declines to issue) licenses in the "designated area" in an arbitary and illegal manner!

It is ironic how the liberals now "see the light" and are copying the Conservative election promises... after they themselves wrecked our programs. Amazing.

[katoe]

Adam smith Letters were supposed to be sent to the nfu office and they would fax them to govt mps.They didn't write my letter .

[wd9]

Katoe, how many actual farmer members does the NFU have?

[TOM4CWB]

Katoe;

Why on earth wouldn't you send your letter to your MP, and other interested persons yourself?

Especially when you know this Ag Minister is not listening to the NFU?

You have to have known it is 10 times more effective sent from you directly in gov. circles!

[AdamSmith]

Ok, Katoe they didn’t write your letter, but they organized the blitz. Same thing different pile. Smart people recognize the difference between something that’s been manufactured and a genuine groundswell of public opinion.

The CWB are masters at manufacturing public and farmer support. They buy opinion writers, they snooker leftward leaning farm groups, they bully opponents and demonize their biggest customers and accredited agent partners. They manipulate the CWB permit book holders/voters list to the extreme that Joe Volpe can only look on in awe. They buy University professors and tell them what they want their so called studies to conclude. They tell you, it’s black when they know that it’s white. (Phil Collins lyrics)

What absolutely amazes me is the fact that the NFU and the NDP support such devious and immoral behavior from anyone. It’s impossible to take those two seriously when they don’t stand on principle only political philosophy and the political philosophy of extinguishing the free market is the only thing that seems to matter to the NFU/NDP.

IMO the NFU are the ones who should have been the CWB’s biggest critics because the CWB are the ones holding the collectivist standard and they’re number one goal should have been to make sure that standard wasn’t tainted. Yet the NFU have been complicit in the free fall of standards at 423 Main.

Again, IMO we need to put this version of the CWB safely into the archives and start fresh with a voluntary farmer marketing agency, that may not have 100% of the market share but they will have the farmers trust and the integrity to respect that trust. And if the NFU had any sense at all they would realize that that would so much more valuable to farmers than what the CWB are now.