Fear

[parsley]

From CBC:


In October 2005, the B.C. government extended until June 2006 the terms of an expired contract with the province's teachers after they had begun a work-to-rule campaign. The teachers walked out, defying the new contract. On Oct. 9, a judge ruled the teachers were in contempt of court for violating what was essentially a back-to-work order.

"We are taking a stand against a law that is so unjust that it attacks rights that people in Canada have fought for for years and years," Jinny Sims, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation, told CBC News.
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Teachers?

Nah. Not in Canada, you say!

[Francksaskfarmer]

Your fist examples is from 1966 when the farming population was much more prominent with many generational ties to the city public. Today people in Regina hardly know anything about farming. All they know is the shiny new tractor they might see in the field. We need their support and it is not by blocking highways that we will accomplish that nor my assembling in mass at the legislature or on Parliament hill in Ottawa; especially if when we get there, we have some farmers arguing and throwing fist at each other because even them can not agree on what should be done.
As for the teachers: when they are not in the classroom it comes through little perfect Johnny not going to school and then the public puts pressure on gov.

If we want result it is going to be by having the public on board with us on any major issue.
I do not know why we do not have TV, papers radio adds portraying the importance of the farm community or how little wheat or barley there is in the end products.
When for example APAS puts some radio adds on it is during a farm edition "preaching to the choir".

May be we need to become a bit more creative and innovative in the ways we communicate with the public; which, in a democracy is the government.
If you have the public’s support then putting pressure on Gov gets something done.

Even well designed billboards with reference to a good website (not the current FFJ) would do wonders. And the nice thing about these is that we are not loosing out time somewhere in the weather accomplishing nothing. We can tend to our business and that is where the money is.
Sure it would be nice if farmers were 40% of the population. But we are not.

Francksaskfarmer

[parsley]

'Tis a fist sample. LOL.


My point for the first example was that even way back then, these measures were taken, and the NFU doesn't seem fazed by them at all!So spare me the outrage now.

Secondly, farmers are very popularly supported by the public. Study the polls. We don't have an image problem like lawyers, or Government people, or multinationsals or Monsanto.

Farmers don't need to spend money to tell the public we are good guys.

The CWB has indicated they want to be an advocate. Take more money from the pooling accounts to promote farmers.Huh?

The farmers problem isn't the farmers. We grow the best durum in the world. Our problem is the deer poop added to the best wheat in the world. So what the issue is, is an entity deducting funds from farmers' cheques to promote the entitiy/CWB.

Nope.

Not in my world.

Parsley


We need to be able to make choices. Period. And fuzzing with CWB suits in the backrooms is not an effective tactic. Ask Flaman.