This can't be good

[tojo]

I've travelled through Quebec on numerous occasions and have seen first hand the agricultural political infrastructure in that Province. It is probably the only Province in Canada where the politicians are kept up to date about the situation(s) in the primary sector. They are ver-r-r-ry well organized and very powerful. They are very professional in the art of lobbying ... something that the younger farmers in the rest of Canada were not taught after the "good times" in the '70's and early 80's (which plays right into the hands of the politicians and bureaucrats) It seems to me that rather than critize them, we should salute those who are on the cutting edge, and who are undoubtedly helping all of us farmers in the rest of Canada who have sat on our butts. Without the actions of those in Quebec to keep the Feds and their own Government in line, we in the rest of the country would be a lot worse off. We are all farmers in a vast country ... we had better learn to work together and stop our in house bickering....we have other battles to fight in a common front!

[ivbinconned]

tojo; no one else here can claim to have brought more lite to this form about the Quebec ASRA progams, or for that matter Western Canada than myself.
It was my digging this information out that brought it to the attention of the Alberta Ag minister.

Some of these details are repeated in the tread "unfair"! Check it out.

No where, not once, have I ever criticized the Quebec producer! If anything I have criticized us for letting ourselves be so divided.

I have criticized those "Canadians" who have to take responsability for giving the west the mushroom treatment for a decade telling us to vent our anger at the Americans and Europeans for subsidies while at the same time doleing it out in Quebec!

If you think that by being nice we will eventually be treated equaly and fairly....well, you must have just got here.