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[parsley]

if you wish to send a message to two of the railways:

1. Go to your Twitter account and use the #MoveMyGrain hashtag with your tweet:

@CanadianPacific @shipCN

2. Post on Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009109618345

That's it folks. I've tried to help a bit with transportation even though organics uses mainly producer cars or containers or semis. pars.

[sumdumguy]

In 1987, we bought 10,000 bus. of certified seed Durum and hauled it over the line. It was legal, but still we were threatened at customs though they never stopped us from selling every bushel. Guess we could have been rattling the bars.

[vvalk]

Pars. My point was that if he didn't carry over grain one option was that he only had the minimum you could deliver per permit book which if I remember correctly was 40 tonnes. And yes I believe that if your that small there is no need to be spouting off about the cwb when in no way is farming your livelihood. I don't go into others people's professions and tell them how they should run their business's

[sawfly]

black powder
are you saying it is different this time?
How?
looks even worse to me.

liberals and conservatives in govt. forever and neither has had a strategic
transportation plan .

don't you think that if there was a war, we would find a way to fill ships quickly at port, and if getting them on their way was crucial to the nations future.
we would just get it done.

at least the board organized that before.

now we have private interests who do not give a rats ass, because they just pass the costs back to the farmers.

govt. does nothing.

when railroad power is now so great.
lawyers, lobbyists, basically acting kinda like the mob.

even to the point of eating their own young ,like Tom .
( whom i am sure was all for , selling off CN and full compensatory rates)
and to be honest i too thought full rates would cure it too.(fool)

now with (over billing 100s of millions on car maintenance)

(cutting service while making record profits, in an attempt to extort more.)

govt. does nothing.

between the lib.s and con.s selling off CN , you conservatives and liberals made this mess,
and made it a lot harder to , if not impossible to fix now.

between that and Mulroney giving away our sovereignty in the FTA.
( our ability to do anything about it.)

here is a tip conservatives .
(i know you were not great in economics class)

creating all powerful private monopolies, does not end well for the people having to live with them.

here is another one.

Contrary to what Harper says.
there is no way of coming to a "market solution" with a monopoly.
( Harper, must live in smurf land, or go to the same church as Tom)

sure tell the guy with a gun to your head that you only want to give him 1/2 your money.

and after he robs you, you can not even run him out of town.
because he has bought protection from Mulroney under the FTA

i am not against capitalism, but conservatives in this land have forgotten it has to have checks and balances.

and contrary to Mr. Harper , govt.s actually do have a role to play . ( or why bother to elect them)

and poor tom, being nailed to the cross by the same powers he helped create.
and yet he still believes.
man that takes faith.
or something.

either way, the whole mess it is not about political stripe, it is about us farmers living in la la land , and not taking care of business. ( BTO )

the rrs and grain co.s are just doing their job. we have not done ours.


any way, with the world debt crisis , and everything else that can happen, it all, may not matter anyway.

enjoy the spring weather, watch the water run, listen to a meadowlark,
love your children and grand children , they can not steal that.

[mustardman]

Well said Sawfly. Sometimes the truth hurts.

[stonepicker]

i'll steal braveheart's line, have a snickers sawfly, if this country is so bad, how come we have so many people from around the world that want to immigrate here?

[TOM4CWB]

Sawfly,

You said; "like Tom .
( whom i am sure was all for , selling off CN and full compensatory rates)"

Please show me once where I ever said this... or advocated to sell off CN and go to 'Full Rates!'

Minister Goodale sold off CN at 10 cents on the dollar... we did not have two cents to rub together to buy shares... keeping our noses down to the grindstone...and our butts up being kicked around by the CWB.

Minister Goodale gave away our inheritance... the crow... as well at 10 cents on the dollar.

Now I am somehow responsible for all of this! I remember... am
TOM4CWB.

For the CWB being honest... respectful of individual property rights... and working to actually work for commercial grain growers in western Canada. The CWB today still does not get these simple needs and builds an empire... instead of arbitraging the basis. Sad and Sickening!!!

But it is fun to accuse someone who is hurting... and when they are down?

SAWFLY?

[sawfly]

stonepicker
i agree totally , greatest country in the world, just trying to keep it that way.
trying to prevent , being turned into a corporate controlled banana republic.

when the corporate lobbyists say bend over . Harper says how far. (seed laws).

and tom if you say you were in favor of
CN as a crown corporation, then i apologize,
i thought you always towed the line with wheat growers policy.

[blackpowder]

Sawfly. I'm saying here's to the potential of being different this time. Sounds like we agree.

[TOM4CWB]

Sawfly,

I suggest respectfully... the PM Harper and many in the cabinet..are much closer to agreeing with us here... than to the portrayal you characterize them with.

The proof will be in the eating of the cake. No free rides.