Class Action Rally

[kato]

How about getting as many opposition politicians as can be found? Educate them, show them that this is bigger than they think, and then set them loose in parliament so they can pound away at it there.

If they get the impression that the traditional Western Canadian Conservative voters are getting disgruntled, they will smell blood, and they see an opportunity.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am beyond disgruntled with our current government, and I bet I'm not alone. It's time this bunch were told that just because the West has always voted Conservative in the past, that doesn't mean the vote is secure.

We can use all the allies we can get.

[rkaiser]

coppertop --- Yes I was speaking of the federal rural caucus. I don't know if the provincial MLA's even know anything about this class action suit.

How about if you send the synopsis that Cam wrote along with the press release and an invitation to who ever you think would be interested. My phone and fax have been backed up for two weeks.

If we are going to make this the event that we all need. We all need to kick it up a notch as we only got a week and a half to go.

If you don't have copies of the press release and the synopsis. We'll post it again.

Thanks Coppertop.

[coppertop]

Randy having the rural Alberta caucus aware
will never hurt, they are all looking for
votes in the next provincial election and
the cattle producers are their
constituents.

[coppertop]

One caution on trying to leverage
support by turning the opposition loose.
I watch the Alberta question period
whenever possible and quite often the
opposition tries to make brownie points
by bringing up some agricultural related
issue on which they have not gotten
adequate or accurate information. Much
better to deal with the party in power
and use whatever means possible to get
their attention vs trying to make them
look foolish by using the opposition.
The old adage that you get more bees
with honey usually works with
politicians too.

[kato]

I was thinking more federal opposition than provincial. I'm not sure what provincial politicans can do anyway, since it's out of their jurisdiction.

The Harper government, to my thinking has only responded to scares up to now, and pretty much ignores polite requests.

Election scares = response.

A bazillion polite requests from the likes of us = lip service.

They won't do anything unless it looks like power is in danger.

[rkaiser]

Seriously coppertop. Would you please forward the press release to the mailing lists that you mentioned or any other mailing list you can think of. You never know how big of a snowball one little snowflake bumping into another can make.
Thanks Snowflake
Randy

[coppertop]

kato, provincial politicians speak to their
federal counterparts on a daily basis,
never under estimate their lobbying power.

[smcgrath76]

Poloticians are generally looking for
solutions (or at least the path of least
resistance). As a farm community we often
rant and rave and belittle while the
proponent of the easiest solution at the
time walks in and steals the day. We need
a clear and easy solution (the easiest
being - please empower us and then we will
carry the day and give you some credit.)

[rkaiser]

As in "please stop this thing from going any further, settle now and we will use the money to buy and build infrastructure and business to correct the problems in our industry ---- and we will thank you in the end?"

Maybe I read a bit much from your comments Sean.

[smcgrath76]

Probably, but maybe not Randy. I think
they don't think much about ag, and when
someone with a good marketing plan sits
down and talks to them, they jump on the
appealing solution. We just have to make
sure that our solution is the most
appealing, as opposed to the folks who
have been winning the battles so far...