Agriculture policy depends on which farmers Ottawa is wooing

[chuckChuck]

The important point is supply management will be gone as soon as Comrade Harper decides he doesn't need the political support of dairy and poultry farmers.

[Happytrails]

Re the end of supply management; it can't happen too soon for a lot of us. However it is a red herring in the CWB discussion. Try to focus chuck.

[parsley]

Since the CWB is national legislation, and since
wheat and barley is replaced with a "grains"
designation,and since  the Designated seems to
be undefined, and since  Eastern Canada votes
for,  and promotes the CWB, is there an
opportunity for you Chuckchuck to pair up with an
east-west CWB, with Pierre in PQ selling canola
plus ontario's AVJoe selling lentils?  (grains)

PLUS think about amalgamating with the new
voluntary Eastern milk marketing board so
chuckchuck can also sell and produce butter? 

OhBerg would presume he'll sell the cream, but
then you would be able to opt out if you felt
grievously injured. 

And as a coup, you can convince the Ont Wheat
Board to disarm it's legislation so FINALLY,
quebec and ontario can enjoy the full benefits  of
a national marketing CWB. 

You will be rid of the Western critters who insist
on individually hauling their wagonloads to North
Dakota. 

Prepare!  Learn French.    pars

[Mjolnir]

I might point out that every province has dairy,
poultry and egg marketing boards. Only the west
gets the CWB, "white people only at the water
fountain" is one hell of a way to run a country.
Anytime I see eastern Lieberals or the Bloc
voting in favor of the CWB it gives me the
creeps. One might wonder how much money
they make off the CWB, or steal, or hide.

[wd9]

There has always been a balance from NFU to CFA to GGC lobbying government. Seems when right wing actually gets listened to the majority of media which is left wing cries foul. Interesting.

[silverback]

I am guessing that 10 - 20 years ago those who favor keeping farmers shackled to the cwb were the loudest ones to support supply management.

I don't know where any of these pro cwb people live, but around here there are hundreds of guys asking for freedom from the cwb, and nobody wanting to get into the dairy or poultry game.

Chucky, again we have to say, "We'll take care of the mandatory wheat board FIRST!, and then we'll tackle your little pet project, OK?"

Do you really want the supply management sector stripped of it's price setting ability, or are you just flinging crap?

[TOM4CWB]

Chuckchuck,

For the tenth time...

Supply Management policy by this Conservative Party was determined in 2005 at CPC AGM policy convention in Montreal. The CWB position to remove the 'single desk' was approved at the same CPC Convention in 2005.

There has been ample discussion at every CPC policy convention since; 2 of them the most recent in June of 2011. The policies on Supply Management and the CWB are BOTH well supported by Conservatives nation wide.

Try to cause a rift; ignore the facts. These Conservative CWB and Supply Management policies were created and maintained by a free democratic process; just in case you care.

But Chuckchuck...you already know this.

Stir the pot... Stir the pot.

Your pot is only full of hot air!!!

[wd9]

Good post Tom4

[Braveheart]

Supply management is as far from "Soviet style" ag policy as you can get. Only the rich need apply. Totally captive market. A true Capitalist dream.

[Happytrails]

For the nth time the CWB on the table not "supply management". Neither is defensible but we have to address them individually. Better to gore a few oxen than thousands of grain growers. HT

[gregpet]

This is just my opinion, but maybe the government
realizes that milk and poultry are profitable for their
producers under the current system while the
former CWB was not profitable and an impediment
to growth and success to prairie wheat and barley
farmers.

Still, at least Integrity_Farmer and I can agree that
these two cannot be compared since we have shown
you that already.

[freewheat]

I wonder if chuck chuck, Ahem
korneychuk, can tell us the names of all
the dairy farmers who are upset at being
"forced" into supply management.

And then tell us if he can find guys who
want the cwb to die and get lost.

That my friends, is the difference. 100%
of dairy farmers want to be in that
system. With WESTERN wheat and barley,
not so much.

So to the cwb lovers, korneychuk, and
flaman, Harper is listening to the
farmers in each sector. That is the
entire difference. If the cwb was loved
by all, I doubt he would touch it.