Politics

[TOM4CWB]

Amen, Time to try the Canola...

All this is like Solomon said 'Chasing the Wind'!!!

"I have seen everything that is done under the sun. Look at it! It's all pointless. [It's like] trying to catch the wind." Ecl 1:14

[newguy]

Bet you wish you could change pitchers in the 5th inning.

[rockpile]

Actually when thinking about all 3 levels of government, I think dalek's number is kind of low. Incidentally, I'm not voting on Monday because while all the parties had the chance, none said what I wanted to hear - "You know what? We are not making spending promises at all or creating new programs. Instead, we are going to significantly increase your basic personal tax exemption right across the board. And you smart Canadians are the best suited to spend your own money where it is needed. We'll just look after the necessary stuff." I do not wish to be bought with my own money.

[sawfly]

your question is too simplistic.
as i explain to the wife money is money. it's all the same . where it came from does not matter. and whose money is
spent on what does not really matter.
there are so many $ period.

example health car spending.
Canada spends 60% of what the USA spends per person.
the cdn. cost is mostly govt. spending
the USA cost is mostly not a govt. expenditure , but still has to be paid.

you could cut out a huge amount of govt.spending by ending medicare.
only to pay 40% more in total.

the money all comes from the same place.

you can cut public research as Harper has done. (to cut gov. spending)
only to have it cost the public way more in the end.

instead of having a resistant seed or a new drug developed by govt. spending.
you instead get a corporate seed or drug which according to Harper's new rules, you will have to pay for every year til the end of time.

not a govt. expense but still has to be paid.

certainly govt. s waste money.
the senate , Canada's action plan adds.
5 billion to hand the dairy industry to private hands.

resource gifts to corporations, by way of poor royalty structures.etc. etc.

cutting govt. expenditures just for the sake of doing it,
makes no sense.

even our little small town wanted to cut expenditures 20 years ago.
had a private guy build and own the building which the town leased space.

after 20 years of paying and having nothing to show for it .
now they want to build to save money.

the Conservative plan is always to govern so poorly as to reinforce their govt. is bad theory .

[dmlfarmer]

Rockpile. I sympathize with you. However, staying home insures the system never changes. Instead, I urge you to reject you ballot. Go to the polling station, accept your ballot and then deposit it without writing anything on it. DO NOT SPOIL THE BALLOT by marking it in anyway other than checking a name as these are not counted and furthermore you could face a $500 fine. However, ballots which are not marked at all are tallied as rejected. A high number of rejected ballots indicates a problem. Whether anything is ever done by elections Canada/government is questionable but at least it shows them it is not a case of apathy but rather you feel strongly enough about the sad state of politics to reject the ballot and election.

[rockpile]

Good point DML! I shall do that.

[cottonpicken]

Healthcare,ah man i cant believe a third party pay tier system didnt work can you believe anyone ripped off an insurance system,hay the government is giving out drugs but no not the cheap generic the expensive ones that are the same but you know cost more because well I voted left or was it right i dont know dude i love fluoride we know what that is right right dude. Wait what are we talking about i was watching the jays game and think about the kardashians and lamour man thAt poor guy no dude pay attention government run healthcare they can do it better for cheaper right ya dude government can always do it better for cheaper or can they dude i dont really know i spaced out listening to Howard stern talkin about dildos.

[Oliver88]

I have heard average Sask or Canadian resident cost is 14k per year for healthcare.

[sawfly]

apparently they are doing it cheaper , in health care at least.
Fraisier institute published their study on it.
and you do not get more right wing than those guys.

sure some things are total screw ups
from serveral govt's. mis management . decades of it.

a prime example

the transportation mess that cost
billions , did not show up in govt. expenditures.

but it Still cost billions.
the billions farmers lost may have helped Richardson pay for Vitera in 2 years. but not much else.

just because it did not go thru the govt. does not mean it did not cost you.

if you want a more libertarian veiw with anti combine anti monopoly laws.
and real actual free market competition.
great all for it .

but this govt. does everything it can to prevent that.
and we end up paying the highest price for everything .
beholding to the seed companies
forever , patents that never run out . how does that happen
in a free market?

don't give me no free market BS when it does not exist.
Harper should be breaking cartels, monopolies and price fixing
not making them all the time.

those costs really are taxes too, it is just they do not go to the govt..
to be used for roads and crap

they go to Harper's bosses the Cayman islands.
in a round about way

[sawfly]

i am open to cut costs that make economic sense.

education costs a lot. cut there .

and what is the net result.

do you get an uneducated work force.
do you get a bunch of useless people
getting into trouble.
then you have to build prisons for them ,and hire guards and feed them.

the US has almost 2 million people in prison. that is not cheap either.

pay now or later

you do not want public research.
better hope you do not get some rare dam illness. you can kiss your ass goodbye .
bayer will not spend $ looking for the cure . for the 1 in a million like you.
no market.
i am not saying cuts can't be made
. but everything has a cost / benifit

[TOM4CWB]

CP,

Got 2 quarters of dry Canola in the bin... 3 are full!!!

New seed varieties are amazing!!!

We are truly blessed in Canada... a wonderful country, great people... good infrastructure... and decent markets!

Freedom of speech... on top!

God bless our politicians... as we go into election 2015!!!

All the best!!!

[TOM4CWB]

Hamilton calling... the politics of the CWB or G3!

The steel city becomes the gateway for Ontario crop exports
G3 Canada, the reconstituted old Canadian Wheat Board, is building a 50,000-tonne lake terminal at Hamilton to handle Ontario grains and oilseeds for export through the St Lawrence Seaway. Grain will be shipped to its all-season elevators at Trois Rivieres and Quebec City during the period of Seaway navigation, for onward movement offshore. Construction is to be completed in 2017. G3 continues to evaluate the feasibility of building a new terminal in Vancouver, though site availability and development approvals remain make-or-break issues for all west coast waterfront projects.
Parrish & Heimbecker and Richardson International also have sizable terminals in Hamilton; Richardson’s was upgraded a few years ago at a cost of $5 million. The port handles over 2 million tonnes of Ontario export wheat, corn and soybeans a year, up from 800,000 in 2010. Bulk commodities now represent 18% of the port’s tonnage, up from 9% in 2009.

And then there is the Politics of the Canadian Canola Market!!!

WOW... for a Canadian specialty product...[Canola]and we are in the Clover this year! Folks pulling off 1.5 tonnes per acre... go from 12mmt to over 15mmt for 2015 Canadian crop.. and that qe cash keeps ca-chinging into farmers jeans!!!

Interesting Agriweek article by Morris as well on Canola this week:

"Understanding the amazing canola market"

"Canola prices and demand almost defy gravity
The canola market, by any measure,
continues to boom. Cash and futures
prices last week were the highest since
2012, when most agricultural commod-
ity prices peaked. That has stimulated
near-record weekly farmer selling.
While some portion of deliveries is to
satisfy previously-signed forward con-
tracts, producer deliveries have aver-
aged over 550,000 tonnes a week over
the three weeks since harvest pressure eased off. Deliveries culminated at 673,000 tonnes in the week before last, a recent if not all-time record.

Cumulative deliveries since August 1 are 3.28 million tonnes, up from 3.13 a year ago and about 22% of deliverable 2015-16 supply with 17% of the crop year over. High deliveries in the immediate post-harvest period are usual, but the 2015-16 canola supply is sufficient to support country selling for the rest of the crop year at only about 325,000 tonnes a week. Growers are selling aggressively because prices are comparatively strong in a time when they are often soft and there is a fear that they will drop.
As the accompanying table shows, prices are being supported by the low dollar exchange rate. If the dollar were still at its year-ago rate cash canola prices in Saskatchewan would have been around $424 a tonne. That would still be higher than a year ago, at a time when US soybean futures are almost a dollar a bushel or 10% lower.
However, prices would not be at these lofty levels if not for very active demand for both seed and oil, domestically and for export. Canola seed exports up to the ninth week of the crop year reached 1.66 million tonnes, 9% above year-ago. The five-year average for the first nine weeks of the crop year is 1.17 million.
Domestic use is surging too. Canola crush during the week ended October 7 was a record at 184,500 tonnes, with capacity use reported by the Canadian Oilseed Processors Assn also at 92.4%, also a record. Capacity has increased compared to a year ago with the addition of the large Cargill plant at Camrose. Av- erage utilization for the crop year to date is 73.5%. Cumulative crush so far in 2015-16 has reached 1.37 million tonnes, pulling ahead of 1.34 million to the same date a year ago, though below the record for the date of 1.47 million two years ago.
Canola disappearance since the start of the crop year totals 2.97 million tonnes according to Canadian Grain Commission statistics, compared to intake by the system of 3.23 million, resulting in a build-up of commercial stocks at the end of the ninth week of the crop year to 1.470 million tonnes compared to 1.300 to the same year-ago week. Export terminal stocks were 334,000 tonnes vs 309,000 a week earlier and just 67,000 a year ago when rail congestion limited terminal arrivals. Western crusher canola stocks were 152,000 tonnes vs 118,000 the prior week. Canola users are allowing inventories to build because clearly they have forward com- mitments for them, and they have no reason to expect rail disruptions on the scale of a year ago. If not, basis would widen and cash prices would drop. Despite weak vegetable oil values, canola is carrying a wide premium over soy- beans at 111% on a per-tonne basis.

All of this suggests that there is independent strength in canola demand at a time of a large global vegetable oil oversupply. US soybean exports in their crop year (October-September) to date are 2% higher compared to 9% for ca- nola. Some part of the price advantage from a lower dollar exchange rate is obviously shared with canola users, but except for an unexpected and unlikely surge in dollar’s value there is nothing in sight to prick the canola balloon." Thanks Morris and Agriweek!

One could draw from this... that G3; and the Canola market... including the grain western Canadian grain handling infrastructure;

ALL are working well!

Both Thumbs up Minister Ritz!
Thanks PM Harper!!! You got my vote!