PM Harper answers questions at SARM

[grower99]

Have you read JT's book. Have you read Harperland,A Party of One or googled Northern Foundation and our PM's role in founding this organization? Just asking.

[parsley]

Well CptnObvious, I just got an email from someone who remembers that farmers got jailed for selling their wheat, lest we forget.

And he well knows it was a Liberal Party of Canada government who made damn good and sure farmers got jailed.

John Turcato spent time in jail. Jim Chatenay and Ron Duffy went to jail. Three months. Bill Moore went to jail. Did you every hear of a guy by the name of McMeachan? His name is Andy McMeachan and they put him in chains in the courtroom in front of his children, because he trucked grain from his farm in Manitoba into the US. He had a farm on the US side as well.

And Liberal Party of Canada MP from Wascana, Ralph Goodale, was the Minister of Agriculture at the time, and he wanted to make an example out of Andy so other farmers would be scared to market their grain.

And all because the LPC thought farmers are too stupid to sell their own grain. They believe that the government should be marketing your grain for you. Ralph Goodale championed that notion. The son of a bitch.

In other words, farmers are capable of running their own million dollar farms, but are too incompetent, too rural, too dumb, too uneducated, and too scared to sell their grain.

And you didn't know, CaptnObvious.

Yes well. As the guy who knows marketing inside out emailed me, it appears you're trying to re-write history.

And if you are worth a bushel of wheat, captain, you should apologize to every farmer who was jailed, that you have forgotten was jailed.

Farmers are one step away from being like the Ukraine if Ralph Goodale became the Minister of Agriculture in a Liberal government.

We have marketing freedom, thanks so Prime Minister Harper's government. Let's make sure we don't lose it because of the central planners and the truly stupid.

Parsley

[grower99]

It seems to me that in an era of tough on crime if you break the law you do the time.Just because you don't like a law does that mean you break it? Does that apply to seat belts,child support,dui,speeding...Sorry your argument doesn't hold water.I don't think public servants have to get fingerprinted and their bank accounts audited to keep or get a job. What happens to them if they refuse to comply?

[bucket]

Parsley

Farmers were never too stupid to market their grain.

They are just too stupid to find a government that can have a law to move it. Better to keep growing bins along with grain. That's a recipe for success.

Yup sure is. No sense in moving grain thru a system that should be one of the most efficient on the planet.

Funny thing is when the auto industry was on its knees they didn't ignore it.

Nope they invested in it.

[TOM4CWB]

BTW CptnObvious,

I was at Coutts... watched and heard the Customs offers tell grain farmers

TO REMOVE THEIR GRAIN TRUCKS... AND GO HOME.

I refused to obey these orders... and they were forced to tow my grain truck to Milk River... as there was NO impound yard in Coutts to hold the vehicles. It cost Customs well over a thousand dollars to hold my truck, they returned my truck and all my bond money... after they admitted I had done nothing wrong.

[TOM4CWB]

Jim Chatenay gave a sack of grain to a 4-H club in Sweetgrass... and he was first aquitted (As it was a peaceful demonstration)... then federal crown appealed the judgment... won... and sent Duffy, Chatenay, and many others to prison in Lethbridge AB.

Neighbours around Penhold harvested Jim Chatenays crop... while he was in the solitary block of the prison... because the officials were concerned the other inmates would harm them.

[parsley]

Grower99, The farmers stated it was a protest. They weren't stealing. Or rioting. Or burning police cars. Or looting. They notified Customs and the police. It was there own grain. And don't try and make it sound as if they were criminals. They were not.

We will count on you, grower99, to support arresting and jailing all native protesters for three months, same with all G7 protesters, based upon your view. Parsley

[parsley]

Bucket, true freedom to market was the first impediment. The second is the railways. And there will be relief coming to the system. There will be significant positive changes. A national transportation system is a huge tackle. And I realize you want it done overnight. And some of the port upgrading a are underway. As are highways. And railroads will indeed get a shaking. In the meantime , where are the contracts the farmers should have designed and completed? Where are the designated points for loading producer cars? Where are the contact people lists? Where is a webpage?

Farmers actually have all today's data. Think about that. Imagine if farmers put the stats together!! $$$$$. Updated by the hour.

Can farmers at the very least, have a virtual meeting, if nothing else, and bring a positive marketing aid to the table? Marketing grain will be only as profitable as the amount of money on the table ends up in your pocket. You must be proactive. Parsley

[westernvicki]

Or, at the very least send a little note to the CTA review saying: Mr Emerson, the cost to the Canadian economy of lost opportunity is not just felt on my farm.

Ya think?

[grower99]

That's why the courts have to be given leeway in how the law is enforced. That is why mandatory minimums don't work and are not fair. I agree with you Pars. A hammer was used instead of a fly swatter.

[blackpowder]

Parsley, I missed you.

Tom, as always thanks for the facts.

Cptn. Oblivious, Tara has burned to the ground and no matter how you rewrite history it's not coming back.

Grower 99, Sorry, tried to do the Walmart read of JT's book but couldn't stomach it let alone the price. Your other reading choices appear, to say the least, to build a large case out of very little (ghost written by same guy as wheat belly?)and seem to be featured on some funky one sided websites. You running for Wildrose?

[grower99]

What about Northern Foundation?