Opinions please?

[carebear300]

There is no point taking them to court, once again only the lawyers would benefit. Even if by some minor miracle we won the americans would just dream up some other excuse to close the borders and we would be no further ahead. Maybe energy is the place to start but there again it would hurt the oil industry in this country and all their employees. Don't know the solution except talk some more and suck hole and some way or another the americans will open the border after the election. As for the Japanese they will be just about impossible to satisfy so have to hurt them economically.

[cswilson]

I suppose he could appoint Ralph Goodale.

[kato]

And Lyle VanClief was better?

He out and out told us to take a hike!

At least Speller showed an interest. I think anything he said to us was on directions from above. One thing the Liberal party has, it's control over what it's ministers can and cannot say. If you talked to him next week, I bet you'd get a different story.

[kato]

I bet it's going to be Goodale as well.

[Incognito]

Not on your life will it be Goodale. Finance minister to Agriculture Minister??? He will stay on as Finance Minister....He is a close personal friend of PM PM...they share a cabin and condo together. No demotion in these cards... and Finance is too important to have two portfolios...

[blackjack]

kato... I agree with you in that at least Speller was attempting to reach out to western Canadian farmers than past ag. ministers... its to bad for him Veneman could not get the border open ... if you guys want to jump all over him for saying that the border will open up well he wasn't the only one ...King Ralph has said the same thing several times...

[blackjack]

...save the money and put it into building packing plants...

[blackjack]

What about this David Kilgour fellow from Edmonton? He has shown a bit of interest in this BSE issue.

[whiteface]

Like it's up to any of us to elect an ag minister, but I suppose we could try pressure tactics on our just "so concerned about us, brand new prime minister" yeah right, I'm closer than I've ever been to just shooting the cows that I really do like so much and then hating my life getting a job (flipping) and selling overpriced burgers at our local Dairy Queen. No bother trying to make any money since Martin and Layton would tax the hell out of me if I did and then hand it over in welfare payments to beef farmers to shut them up while they do nothing to help the situation for those producers. Sorry for the sarcasm guys, and thanks for letting me grip, that election last night was a huge letdown for me.

[cowman]

Well I doubt it will be David Kilgour...I doubt he would know which end of the cow to feed or which end of the scoop shovel to use when shovelling the grain!
I suspect Ralph would be good...after all he should have some sort of clue? And he rocked in his riding! But yea, that would be a big demotion from finance and I doubt anyone really gives one rip about agriculture anyway?
I mean lets be realistic...no party ever even basically mentioned ag, right? We truly have become a real non-issue?
As our lives go down the drain we need to realize this...nobody cares? FACT!