Churchill terminal closing

[bucket]

Parsley

The Saudis have upped their stake in G3 already and diluted the farmers share accordingly.

Bunge almost out of the picture already.

Ritz should be getting a bunge board seat there fairly soon.

[wilagro]

Pretty sure the old CWB deal was a set-up from the word go. Please the Saudis, give Bunge an out through share sales and options. Provide the Saudis with an edge. Screw the farmers who got sucked into selling a small percentage of their output. No cash deal, all promissory notes, promise to build more PORT facilities, bluff and bluster. Good press and sound bites. Solved the Ritz promise to unload the old CWB and saved face all around.

The big Saudi war materials contract may have been in the background, hard to guess what went on behind closed doors. Harper and his corporate lovers seemed to be behind a lot of things kept secret from the average Canadian.

Above all...farmer's interests came last...politician's interests came FIRST.

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[parsley]

Churchill represents many things that should be uppermost in most Western Canadians' minds.

1. Most important is it is an alternate grain export route for Western grain so we can bypass the likes of Denis Coederre, and the countless Quebec Western-haters who have preceded him and will follow him. Prairie farm groups should be burning the candle at nights working with large oil companies to partner with, in saving the port, and rebuilding it. Oil and grain are natural allies. Trump will be elected and oil will flow again.

2. Churchill is a military asset. There is no reason why the Federal Govt cannot expend military manpower to help rebuild the railroad.

3 The Saskatchewan Govt and Western Grain checkoffs could be approached to make meaningful investment in lighter grain cars.

4. Churchill Port is a strategic intelligence asset. Manitoba has every good reason in the book to support the keeping the road community accessible.

5. Teamwork is necessary here. A team willing to immediately put the good of agriculture and safety and oil, in western Canada, come first.

6. A northern pipeline could be built by a major oil company running alongside the railroad. Working together.

7. Under no circumstances. None. Should Saudi Arabia be allowed to buy any more Canadian assets.

None.

8. The provinces of Sask. and Manitoba and farmers and oil should be on this like dogs in spring.

it's time Canadians stopped being lazy and stupid.

Parsley.

[parsley]

This is not the time to keep bitching about what has been done in the past. I've condemned Ritz soundly. And loudly. This is a time to pull up your socks , and be a meaningful Canadian in 21016. Times have changed. The world is dangerous. And whining has no place at the Doing-Table

[Braveheart]

One of my friends ran a locomotive on the track to Churchill. He said it's not fit for grain traffic. Too light of steel, unstable trackage, low speeds, light weights, etc. it's not fit. Plus, from southern MB where we farm, it's closer by rail to the Gulf of Mexico than to Churchill by rail.

Sovereignty to the North is an issue, but if we need a grain exporting outlet there to preserve sovereignty, then we never had it to begin with.

I love the historical significance of Hudson Bay but that port doesn't make sense logistically.

Finally, I said when Merv Tweed took over OmniTrax that nothing good would come from it. He's in waaaay above his abilities.

[parsley]

Don't look through your eyes, Brave. Look through Saudi eyes. And then write down what you see.

[Braveheart]

I tried looking through their eyes but everything was dark. I was either looking through the Islamic vision of the future or I had those rags they wear on backwards.