China Taking over Canadian Farms!

[highwayman]

Blakeny and the ndp knew the value of this
province? Thats hysterical! If it was up to twinkle
toes Blakeny, Sask farm land would have been all
owned by their socialist Land Bank and we all
would be tennents working for tha state. They
were masters at keeping this province in the have
not category.

[ASRG]

Please send these Chinese buyers to central Alberta. Willing buyers and sellers make the world go round!

[ALLFARMER]

ASRG how much of western Canada would you
allow sold? All of it? Still all good?

AlbertaFarmer4 bang on comment about FCC!

[wilagro]

This whole BS reminds of when Ernie Isley was Minister of Agriculture for Alberta. The AB government encouraged Taiwanese hog operators to come to Alberta and set up operations here...even found areas for them to invest, paid for the studies, lent them money at low rates and generally undercut Alberta producers.

We don't need these QUISLING politicians screwing with our agriculture and making heroes of themselves. We elect them to look after OUR interests and not the interests of the Government of China or its people.

Vote these people out, we don't need them. Phone, write and email the turkeys and make it know that we don't want our farms sold to foreign nationals financed by the Treasury of China.

[JDGreen]

This is something I will be able to add to over the next while. Close family member is working for a new chinese investing group. All I know is 250-400 million to be invested in land/real estate on initial startup this year. Source says this will be a multi billion dollar land and real estate grab over the next decade.

[sewen]

Apparently the farmers selling out to these
investment companies their "give a s&!%" is
busted. What ever happened to just selling to the
neighbor for a reasonable price?

[hedgehog]

same problem in scotland, a rich danish guy just bought another 50,000 acres to turn into wilderness, and the govt does nothing.
but i cant buy 1 sq metre in denmark, no sir.

[Horse]

SF3 So dont feel to good does it? I bet you wernt a dam bit concerned when you were grabbing all you could and to hell with the little guy well now the worm turns and some one a whole lott bigger is going to put the squese on you.
That said I do agree that forien Govmts shouldnt be allowed to buy up our country but who started this system we are living under.
When the consertives were elected in alta, one of the first things done was to repeal the comunal property laws that turned the Huterites loose well I couldnt compete with them so I was compeled to move to lower quality land that the huterites wouldnt be pusshing the prices up on, and I suspect it is the better land the chinese are after.Just rember it was those with BIG ideas that starved out the small farmer and set up the road for what you are getting, if there was still 1 section farmers it would be a lot harder to put large tracts together, but I am sure you needed 50 quarters to live so l;earen mandarin.

[cottonpicken]

How does the small farmer fit in-between the big
farmers and the big big chinkermans?

[SASKFARMER3]

JDGreen is your friend the manager of
the one farm north of me!
Yea yea its not about me I have enough
land to live on but its about local
community. This is about huge Foreign
owned farms in Canada, sending food back
home. Subsidy check comes from China. So
how is the Canadian farmer going to
compete. Answer is we are all going to
loose.
As far as bringing in FERT and Chem.
WHERE DOES YOUR ROUNDUP GENERIC COME
FROM. Boat of fert unloaded in Vancouver
, shipped by rail to Saskatchewan then
rail cars loaded with grain shipped to
vancouver then load boat and send to
china. NO CARGIL NO GLENCORE NO CPS NO
DEERE NOTHING! HOW many jobs will be
lost.
This is a huge problem. 400 mill vs the
rest of us, how well are we going to do
going against CHINA!!!!!!!!!!

[sumdumguy]

FCC better not be backing them at these prices.
This government is out of control! The taxpayer
cant foot the bill for all this immigrant crap.

[SASKFARMER3]

Also dig a little deeper into some of
these so called Canadian land companies. I
thinks their share offering is from China
not wealthy Canadians.