Fair Market Beef Lawsuit

[nicolaas]

one thing to remember when suggesting an oil and gas tarif is the fact that the oil and gas industry in Canada is mainly owned by US investors !!

[Cattleman]

Tariff on Corn, thats brilliant!! Drive up feed costs here! Good for our livestock industry...guess more animals will have to go south to be fed!
ALthough, I have not really herd anything serious about corn tariffs.

[cpallett]

farmers_son,

The ABP, CCA, OntarioCA and other producer organizations are focussed on getting help from the Feds in the form of subsidies, programs to increase sales of Canadian beef products abroad etc. What we are trying to do is hit the Feds right between the eyes with a baseball bat and force them to give the money back that they effectively stole from Canadian cattle producers through their negligence. A somewhat different approach.

So, the producers' organizations are taking a hands-off approach with us because they do not want to poison their lobbying efforts. In my view this is correct politics. I believe that cattle producers are best served by having the ABP and CCA, for example, get as much as they can from the Feds in the way of subsidies while we do our best to collect the other 90% or so that producers have lost. No guarantee that we are going to win, so why should we interfere with producer organizations' ability to lobby for more help? We are counting on building support at the grass roots level as this lawsuit progresses. That means you, and others like you. Please spread the word.

All the best.

[cpallett]

Randy,

Fortunately for us 'most probable' does the trick. The test in the common law is balance of probabilities; in other words whether it is most likely or not(think of the scales of justice). Not to be confused with the criminal law test of 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. All we need is a 51% likelihood in the court's view that things happened the way we say they did and we are there.

Delay in our court system is inevitable and extremely frustrating. No doubt the Feds will appeal anything and everything they can and try to slow things down where possible. Fortunately, in Regional Senior Justice Winkler we have a strong judge who is not likely to put up with too much nonsense or delay from anyone, including the Feds.

All the best.