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    Bill 36 the right to extinguish livestock producers

    When I attended the Alberta Surface Rights meeting in Camrose on the 22nd, I discovered the missing link.

    The missing link tying together the new Animal Health Act and premise ID, with the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (known as Bill 36).

    Here’s how it works;

    Producers of the OIE listed 28 species of animals, including cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, chickens etc. have never been governed under legislations, except for “confined feeding operations” (CFOs). Ranchers and acreage owners have always been FREE to buy and keep these critters with no interference from government agencies, ie: no license or permit was required. Excepting, those residing in towns and cities that have banned ownership of livestock within their corporate limits.

    Now, under the Alberta Animal Health Act, Traceability Premises Identification Regulation #200/2008 it states:
    1 In this Regulation,
    (a) “applicant means a person who applies for a premises identification account and at least one premises identification number;
    …(h) “recordable animal” means [and it lists the 28 species]

    Then under “Premises identification” it states:
    2 (5) No owner of a recordable animal shall breed, keep, raise, display, assemble or dispose of the recordable animal unless that owner
    has a premises identification account.

    So what happened last year, was the government of Alberta rolled out a two-part “program” giving livestock producers a cash payment. The TRICK was that the second promised “half” of the payment could only be obtained if producers “APPLIED” for a premise identification account & number. It is rumored around 80% of those eligible “applied”.

    Now, this Animal Health Act and its’ Regulations constitute a “statutory consent” governing over the livestock producers, whether intensive or not.

    Along comes the Land Stewardship Act (LSA) and within this Soviet style legislation is the means to extinguish our rights to raise any of these animals.

    In the definitions of the LSA is “statutory consent”:
    2 (z)“statutory consent” means a permit, licence, registration,approval,
    authorization, disposition, certificate, allocation, agreement or
    instrument issued under or authorized by an enactment or regulatory instrument;

    Further, in the LSA it states:

    Statutory consents may be affected
    11 A regional plan may, by express reference to a statutory consent or type or class of statutory consent, affect, amend or extinguish the statutory consent or the terms or conditions of the statutory consent.

    In plain and simple terms, under the LSA a regional plan can only "extinguish” a “statutory consent” if it is issued under or authorized by an enactment or regulatory instrument. Is it clear as mud yet?

    Before the new Animal Health Act, our right to raise these critters was not legislated. Today, we are privileged producers granted the right to raise these animals by law.

    The Government of Alberta has now decreed, what we have given the citizen/slave (under legislation), we can now take away (under the LSA). Are you starting to get it?

    Our Alberta Government, Department of Agriculture bribed you to apply for a Premise ID account, only so that they could make a contract between you and them which constitutes a “statutory consent”; so that under the LSA they could “affect, amend or extinguish” your premise identification account, thereby forcing you out of business, and maybe even starving you (like the Ukrainian famine under Lenin and Stalin).


    This is a mechanism for the Government of Alberta to take away your livelihood without taking away your land.

    #2
    Don't forget lawyer Keith Wilson will be speaking in Medicine Hat at the Med. Hat Lodge Thursday Nov 25 at 7PM. He didn't tell half the story at Camrose, and promises more for the cowboys down south.

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      #3
      Suspect some up movement - the election is not over yet.

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        #4
        Just wait for the initials to go up after the election.

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          #5
          Too bad the cwb didn't ask for the adjustment as soon as they made the durum call. The cwb wouldn't have wasted farmers money on demurrage. They had 8 weeks from the time they made the call to the time they filled out the paperwork properly.

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            #6
            Is there anyone in the agricultural community that doesn't know an $70/tonne adjustment payment is coming? What planet do they live on?

            If cash flow is an issue, I would hope every farmer is well aware of the early payment options - 80 % EPO are very low cost premiums. The minimum I would do on any CWB delivery these days is an 80 % EPO - that is unless I am so well healed cash wise and have a 2010 tax problem/don't want the income this year.

            From a taxpayer standpoint, why shouldn't the CWB/farmers handle risk without a taxpayer supported adjustment payment? I would note that the low cost of EPOs would indicate minimal risk at the 80 % level and low cost to manage. That should be your responsibility as a farm manager.

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              #7
              I heard somewhere that the cause of this snafu, is Ritz cracker head, complaining the paper work wasn't done correctly. Politicos playn games, Harpo and crew, trying to git more of us Comedian farmers to hate the CWB. To bad that we ain't as dumb as they think we is!!!!!!!!!

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                #8
                Burbert: Good thing we are not as dumb as you sound.

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                  #9
                  Burbert,

                  Again... Just in Case you actually missed this the first time I posted it:

                  'The Bulletin
                  November 8, 2010

                  At a glance

                  Increases to initial payments are likely to receive government approval later this month for producers who have delivered wheat, durum and barley to the CWB so far in the 2010-11 crop year. The CWB made a recommendation to the federal government to increase initials on Sept. 3. Following a significant rise in markets and difficult harvest conditions in Western Canada, the CWB submitted a revised recommendation on Sept. 29, in order to get more money to farmers faster. The revision means farmers will receive the full adjustment sooner than if the original recommendation had been approved, followed by a second recommendation reflecting the change in market conditions. If approved by the federal government, the revised recommendation would increase payments to the base grades of wheat, durum, feed barley and malting barley in the range of $50 to $70 per tonne. The timing of payments cannot be confirmed until government approval is received, according to a process set out by the CWB Act."

                  http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/newsroom/publications/

                  So perhaps an Apology would be in order... BURBERT.

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                    #10
                    P;rediction on PROS. Up, up, up. Nuf said!!!

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                      #11
                      Then sometime in 2011 down, down down.

                      Just like the durum pro from feb 09 to sept 09.

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