The future

[boone]

Cowman: It is my understanding that it was up to a corn growing area like Ontario to proceed with a trade procedure against the U.S. corn and they felt it would be against there best interests. Manitoba had applied for a judgement at one time and it was withdrawn after a short while. Anyway that will be more fodder for anti-easterners in this string.

[cowman]

boone: It may have been up to the corn producers to complain but it should have been up to the barley producers to demand that the province do something! How unfair was this? The grainfarmer had just got hammered by the drought. He needed the extra price to make up for the loss in yield. Simple supply and demand dictated he should get that price...then the province does an end run around him, for feedlot alley!
And when I say the province did the end run I mean the province! They allowed a known pest enter the province and therefore broke their own laws...for what? To keep their buddies in feedlot alley and at Brooks and High River happy? We did not need corn here! Close to 500,000 calves went south anyway why not a few thousand more
The law is the law. You can't toss it out whenever you feel like it! But that is what Klein and his gang did! Not only did he put our whole grain industry at risk but I would suggest he did something much worse? Undermine the whole justice system! When people see the law being broken for a select few they lose respect for the law, and that is something that can have grave consequences?