duty on Corn?

[cowman]

Okay so Canada put a $1.65 duty on American corn? Is this duty sustainable or is it basicaaly a trade harassment that will be shot down by NAFTA or the WTO? Is the Canadian government learning how to play the American game of attacking everything even though you don't have a snowballs chance of winning?
What affect will this duty have on feed grain prices in Canada? I would assume it might raise prices in Manitoba and Ontario?
Does this duty have a time frame or is it an ongoing thing? Right now we are awash in cheap feed but who knows what is down the road! Remember the 2002 drought when in came the subsidized corn that drove down barley prices?

[Horse]

Who asked for corn imports in 2002 the same people that advertize alta barley fed beef and who made the coin on the corn I know we all arew paying now because we have to have our seed tested for furisarium.
Thanks to those feeders or feedcompanys.

[cowman]

The whole thing is completely shameful, including the RCMP involvement in ripping off the system. What kind of tinpot banana dictatorship have we let this country slip into?
And yet the Liberals are still leading in the polls! What does that say for your average Canadian voter?
I don't think it matters whatever crooked stuff goes on to the voters down east? They won't vote for Harper, mainly because he is from the west and was involved with a party that asked for more fairness for the west! The Conservatives would probably be ahead right now if MacKay was the leader?
However if MacKay was in would be better off than with the Liberal thugs? He is pretty well connected to the same masters who pull Martins strings and his dealings with Orchard show his word doesn't mean much?
This is a pretty poor excuse for a country.

[cowman]

Well it wasn't the corn that came in from the US, necessarily? In 2002, during the drought, there was a whole lot of dirty grain, hay and straw that came into feedlot alley(and many other areas).
The Alberta government had a duty to uphold their own laws under the Pest Control Act...but didn't! Now without a doubt the feed had to come in...no government could let the cattle industry go down in Alberta, but they did nothing to ensure feed coming in was fusarium free? Instead they came up with a policy of "Best management practices for Fusarium Graminnearum"!
The real fault here wasn't the cattle feeder trying to survive but the provincial government not doing its job?
Fusarium Graminnearum is here. It has gained a foothold in Alberta. When the right conditions come along...well there goes our malt...there goes our milling wheat!
Fusarium Graminnearum isn't just about loss to headblight. It is also a disease that can attack seedlings, in a big way! You can control seedling losses with seed treatment...of course with a cost!
So the grainfarmer was the real loser here, without a doubt, and although he is paying through a seed test(about $35-$40 per sample) and maybe with seed treatment costs, the bill won't really come until we get a full scale outbreak of headblight?
Your government at work for you!