Ritz WTO position??

[wd9]

Saskfarmer3, you may want to consider the effects of all that saturated fat from the cheese clogging your arteries. A good balanced meal of fresh fruits and vegetables, perhaps skim milk, low fat yogurt etc for the dairy and a good balance of low saturated fats like canola, flax, soy and yes even nuts like peanut butter, will go a long way to keeping you and your family healthy.

Eat smart, live healthy.

[Fransisco]

The workable solution?

Its time the Conservatives got a backbone and did the right thing for the majority of Canada's farmers and the majority of Canadians instead of kowtowing to a radically protectionist special interest group, namely supply management.

Look back at that province by province breakdown I put up on trade as a % of GDP. The overall 40% Canada average is deceiving, Nunavut and the Yukon skew the average quite a bit. Canada is a trading nation, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Then look up the stats-can population breakdown. Only .01% of all Canadians are in the supply management business and yet they are dictating our trading position?! Are we really ready to sacrifice our economy for .01% of the population?

The Conservatives and every other party are amping up the political potential of the supply managed guys to deliver them votes to way,way beyond anything that is realistic. They are far to small a group to be able to deliver any political party anything.

[parsley]

and -------wd9,


also add a tune to that list....you are good at the tee tee tah's....an interesting one, now... nice to listen to and add the lyrics...let's see what you recommend!

[agstar77]

"Forced participation is idefensible". How are organic labelling regulations maintained ? Can I call my grain organic without approval from regulators? Is this an exception to your rule or do I have to volunteer to meet arbitrary standards?

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

How is Harvest going?

What words for wisdom has the wise person that has travelled far and wide... collected to share with us... CDN WTO... position... are we making any headway at WTO... or just spinning our collective high centred Wheels?

[parsley]

You'd wonder how organics ever developed, listening to you!

The CONSUMER trusted the farmer. They do it all the time.Check the surveys. But tconsumers DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT trust Governments as much as they trust farmers.


Only numbnuts wanted to involve Government. Drooled and wet their pants to have Government involvement in organics, whispering, "You can't do it without me".

Intellect bleeding out their fingernails.

People who understand what organics really means never ever wanted Government involvement.

Oops. That went ove ryour head agian, didn't it agstar?

Parsley

[cottonpicken]

Get back in line Tom.

Theres no room for thinking or dissent in our ideology.For we are the protectors of freedom of thought.

And if our glorious idol amerika does something absolutely ridiculous we will simply defend the actions no matter how undefendable they are.God bless us and no one else.

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

I admit it... they stole my innocence in Halifax and Montreal!

But not my soul!

Grin!

Strange new world we live in... 2 years ago... who would have thought!

I must pinch myself... see if this is a dream... ouch!...no it isn't!

[wd9]

Well Tom4CWB, there has been significant progress made in the last little while. However given this letter there is as I posted earlier that power of SM5 and its' sole purpose to protect at the expense of every other industry including the view of Canada at WTO.

It is not consistent with what the Government of Canada and all WTO member countries agreed to on July 31, 2004 in Annex A - Framework for Establishing Modalities on Agriculture.

In the Sensitive Products section of the agreement it says “the principle of substantial improvement will apply to each product” and “…will be achieved through combinations of tariff quota commitments and tariff reductions applying to each product”.

The text goes on to say that “some MFN-based tariff quota expansion will be required for all such products”.

This agreement was signed by all WTO members, including Canada, as the basis for negotiations. That's where the schizo position becomes an issue.

The letter to the Ambassador is not consistent with Canada’s commitment under the terms of the framework agreement, nor does it align with Canada’s substantial export interests.

As I said earlier, this is unacceptable to the grains and oilseed industry.

[parsley]

Your exaggeration does you injustice cotton.

1. First of all , USA is the most highly sought out country for immigrants. Why do you suppose they chose USA? Why not Iraq? Or Nigeria? What makes a country desirable? What is it that most makes America the way it is? I would venture it is thsir political system that provides the backbone.


2.We have such a range of dissent in Canada. Polygamy is thriving! Sharia law is almost home-free. Heath care is so socialized, we have more administrators than healthcare workers. You feel you are lacking freedom of thought? Good grief. You need to read more

Parsley