CWB buyer

[mustardman]

I've said all along that we are going to war with Isis (we shouldn't be)but what they do is not much different than what happens in Saudi Arabia.

So why are the Saudi s our buddy's?

[foragefarmer]

Hey no matter what politic strip you belong to, Harper and Ritz could have found a buyer with a better track record than the Saudi's. Let's stop making excuses for the poor judgement.

[Braveheart]

Pars, those Muslims might find out a stable of women to be around all day would be more akin to condemned to hell.

Osama had three wives and when the seal team broke in he pleaded, "Please kill me"!

But the point is, who gets the judgement hammer. All those Mom and Pop convenience stores in Canada run by Muslims, do we just say "No. You can't. You're Muslim." When that threshold is crossed what's next? Are we going to set up ghettos and camps? Unlike Nazi Germany our railways wouldn't get the prisoners to the camps.

My focus is on Bunge as a good operating partner.

[parsley]

Mom and Pop in convenience stores are
Canadian citizens who abide by Canadian Rule of Law. The State owned and run Saudi entity who purchased a strategic Canadian company, with access to infrastructure including rail and ports is Saudi government run, and operates under Sharia law at origin.

Big difference. You are very clever. You understand the threat. Saudi Arabia is not a friend to be trusted. Parsley.

[dmlfarmer]

Blackpower wrote: "But until they own farmland..." Braveheart and Tom consider Bunge good operating partner. Well, maybe you will be able to sell your land to G3 someday too.

Bunge already owns sugarcane farms in Brazil: (from Form 10-K for BUNGE LTD 2-Mar-2015 Annual Report
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
“We own and/or have partnership agreements to manage farmland on which we grow and harvest sugarcane.”)

Bunge is one of the companies named as owning Romanian farmland http://consultcormack.com/blog/?p=1259

And in 2010 Reuters reported Bunge was considering launching an investor fund of $100 million to allow it to purchase farmland.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/19/aginvesting-bunge-idUSN1923368520100519

[Braveheart]

Dlm, I believe we create our own destiny.

I am aware of Bunge owning sugarcane farms, but, cane is a much different animal than prairie grain production.

Farming in western Canada has a way of humbling big absentee corporations.

Nonetheless, our vision for our farm doesn't involve being owned by a grain co bent on vertical integration.

I am just having trouble understanding what is so bad about having a global merchant of grain establish more of a presence in Canada. If you don't like them don't do business with them.

[blackpowder]

I get a bang out of this site.
Stalin killed more Soviets than Hitler. Putin might be a modern version. We wring our hands or knit while Africa continues its starvation.
There are a few reasons to spank the Saudis, most of which the US and GB can be thanked for. We have many customers we need to keep a hideout gun for while we take their check.
Our sensibilities prefer certain buyers but the result is the same. Its useful to keep your enemies closer. We are either worthy opponents in the arena or we feed the lions.
Grow up everyone. Whats the difference holding your nose on a driveway here or on a trade mission in foreign lands?
Other countries are only too happy to take our money while they kick our ass. Why cant we do the same?
Owning a grain company here doesnt mean we have to accept their culture or tolerate it here.
Maybe if we had been this full of piss and vinegar these last 80 years it wuld look different today.
Which leads me to a question I should start a newthread with. Why the hell cant the Old Guard admit some culpability in all this. They had the reins while we sat in a time capsule. It seems since we closed down Avro its been OK to take second place. Its the Canadian way after all.
The Old Guard sat like mice under a bale while everything around them changed. 5 years ago I was in Winnipeg to learn how well we were being placed for the increased traffic to Europe! Twilight Zone shit! You had no idea it was no longer 1945! So by 2015 our infrastructure is foreign owned. What a *** surprise! For 70 years any thoughts other than status quo were dismissed as heresy, lunacy or treason.
Now your surprised that no one listens to you or believes you. You have no support. Your unique vision of farmer controled destiny doesnt exist today because of you. Like the tyrannical father who is surprised all his sons left home.
Even if youre willing to accept any responsibility, you would have to turn the clock back 70 years not 5! The universe as you thought it, was a dead man walking.
Are you able to use your intelligence for the task ahead? Until you people (you know who you are) can accept any responsibility we might all be doomed to be the cocks in the ring while the countries who accept the rules hold the money and the bets.

[samhill]

This deal is a mistake for Canada, and is only the beginning or part of the trend. Our country is for sale and it matters not who the buyer is. Who is it that flies planes into buildings, kidnaps schoolgirls for sex toys, and beheads people doing charitable work. But a dollar in your pocket is more important. And you chastise Canadians for having an opinion that doesn't agree with yours.

[Hopperbin]

Mustard I did not read this whole thread and also dont know why isis is part of the topic. Isis has recently slaughtered 200, 000 people.

[Hopperbin]

To the origional topic message. 250 million is not enough for 50 percent stake. I think the investigations are about to begin Thus is ****ed up. How can anyone think 250 million will purchase half of cwb?