FarmTech

[wilagro]

gregpet: Nobody said that processing couldn't proceed in Canada...The CWB certainly didn't.

Processors wanted cheap grains...well now they can get them...happy now?

[gregpet]

Wilagro are you claiming the grains are cheaper
now? Do you have any evidence?

[cottonpicken]

so their standard of living hasnt been
increasing?

nothing happens overnight but they are
far better off than they were twenty
years ago and twenty from now they will
probably have a higher standard of
living than us

[Burbert]

Last I checked, China was a Commie land.
What kinda pinko, wants ta give'm our oil?
It appears that a buncha you marketeers
and chislers are fergettin who yer gonna
be dealin wit. Commie sympathizers are
just as bad as commies themselves.

[shaney]

RealAgriculture.com did over 20 interviews of the
speakers and they will be posted over the next month.
If you missed anything you can get completely up to
speed.

[jackspratwhynot]

Reread the prostitution joke.

[wd9]

It was great, and that crew can feed a lot of people with delicious food. Lots of room as the mayfield was definitely outgrown. Left the truck there for all 3 days and used LRT to hotel.

Jerry Dee was soooo funny. Good to see Rick T got the honour for his work for ag.

[perfecho]

Lead by example and then perhaps I will listen...

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

I agree it was the best Farmtech yet... really a class Act.

Thanks Rick and all that worked so hard to make it near flawless and a complete pleasure to attend and participate in.

Cheers!

[ASRG]

I suspect Mr. Harper is going to get a real dose of reality if he tries to raise the age for old age security? I suspect he will get another dose of reality if he tries to buffalo those BC Indians?
If the Indians don't burn down Parliment, the baby boomers might!

[stubblejumper]

Craig Oliver, CTV Chief Political Correspondent

Date: Friday Jan. 27, 2012 3:38 PM ET

If you listen carefully to what all of the senior conservative government officials are saying these days, it appears they want to turn Canada into an economic juggernaut. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stephen Harper told investors and bankers that Canada is getting ready for major transformational change.


Having scolded the Europeans for the failure of their post-war welfare state, Harper told them that Canada, worried about its aging population, will soon be dealing with the pension costs, which their nations have failed to tackle until it's too late.


Everyone's trying to ferret out the nature of Harper's grand scheme for the country. So here's my guess: First he knows what we all know, that the globe is undergoing a tectonic shift, one which is moving wealth, money and power from the old industrial west to the emerging nations of the Asia-Pacific.


Second, he also knows that globally Canada is increasingly seen as an energy superpower. It's clear to me at least that Harper intends to put his shoulder to the national psyche and heave it away from being as Eurocentric as it has been since the beginning and into seeing itself and acting to a greater degree as a Pacific nation.


Naturally, our neighbours next door will always be our most significant trading partner but Americans are suffocating in debt which along with other deeply rooted problems will restrain that country's long-term prospects.


Obviously, because he said as much, Harper believes Canada's economic well-being will depend heavily on our ability to find other customers and especially in the emerging nations of Asia, such as China, India, Indonesia, Korea.


That's why he appears so anxious and frustrated with the resistance and slow pace of environmental approvals for projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would carry Alberta oilsands bitumen across British Columbia to tankers on the West Coast.


He told the crowd in Davos getting Canadian energy resources to Asian customers is a national priority. More than that, it appears Harper intends to task every department of the government from Foreign Affairs to immigration and energy to make trade, investment and jobs their daily priority.


On Question Period this week we'll talk to Joe Oliver, the minister of natural resources, who wants to speed up and put deadlines on the ability of the National Energy Board and others to get final approvals for major projects, such as pipelines.


We will also speak to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who says one of the important matters slowing the Canadian economy down is a shortage of skilled labour, and he intends to do something about it.


In addition, we'll hear from our finance panel of Members of Parliament from all three parties, for their view of the Conservative government's new agenda, which could be titled The Business of Canada is Business.


Not everyone will agree with that narrow definition of what Canada is about



Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/QPeriod/20120127/criags-take-harper-oilimmigration-120127/#ixzz1klVlbDva

[riders2010]

The best we can come up with to solve debt is throw grandma out on the street? Why does steve hate grandma?

Does he know how many people that are so called retiring at 65 with nothing more than the pension? What an imoral thing to do.

Here's a brain wave, if the world wants our oil so bad why not make them pay for it, instead of giving it away.

But it is good the self destruction is starting.