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[wilagro]

Ritz reminds me of Mr. McGoo. the way he runs around in circles. A bit of a windbag IMHO.

When is Canada going to get some "statesmen", instead of these bumbling bufoons we have been stuck with lately?

[charliep]

wilagro, agstar77, stubblejumper

When you read the CWB farmer survey, what is it farmers are asking for? Is it what the federal government is proposing for barley when you take away how they tried to accomplish it or is it the programs the CWB has developed to mimic an open market? When you make the comment, keep in mind that 70 to 80 % of barley is sold domestically/open market.

If the CWB is to satisfy the needs that are being communicated in the CWB producer survey, what do they do differently?

[parsley]

wilagro,

You liked kissing rings. It got to be a habit, right?

So, go for him again when the writ drops:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Gagliano

I'm sure he'll serve if you offer the right kind of assurances.

Parsley

[bucket]

Keep arguing fellows. The government and the cwb are to blame in this mess. Courts or no courts.

Harper or for that matter the cwb could have another binding plebiscite to end this debate. Open or not open. No middle ground.

Neither have the balls to do it. Why??

The consevative will always be elected by farmers. Ontario and Queeeeebec don't give a good god damn if the cwb exists or not. Although if Harper had any sense he would make it so that IF the vote went for retaining the cwb he could then impose it across the country - things might change a little quicker.

Personally I think the cwb, with all hype around it, should have been made a confidence vote.

[Fransisco]

Willie and Stubble, do you agree with the Star Phoenix that Harper is the moral equivalent of Mugabe?

Or do you agree that it is in extremely bad taste to minimize the brutal torture and murder of people in Zimbabwe in this way?

[agstar77]

Charlie, you will also note in the survey farmers had more faith in the CWB as opposed to Mr. Ritz, in directing agriculture. Could the survey be slanted by the gag order placed on the CWB?

[Fransisco]

Just can't handle the facts agstar? Most farmers range anywhere from unhappy to very unhappy with the board and you are looking for excuses to ignore them. Again.

[jensend]

harper certainly isn't the moral equivalent of mugabe. he has some veneer of civilization about him. tom also shouldn't compare the cwb to policies instituted by mugabe. haven't heard of farmers being killed as a result of the cwb. hyperbole seems to be the order of the day.

[Jay-mo]

Unfortunatly for the star-phoenix, wilagro, agstar, vader etc there are more and more farmers who actually like that quote from PMSH and hope some stomping starts happening soon. (metaphorically of course, not in a hand chopping fire-bombing Mugabe kind of way)

[Fransisco]

jensen is right convicting over a hundred Western farmers for trying to sell their own grain is not the same as death squads and strip searches in Canadian prisons are not the same thing as torture.

Not that any of those things are particularly pleasant either, just in a whole different ballgame.