A 12 year old explains it

[foragefarmer]

You never did answer my question as to why the WCWGA didn't bring up 100 million CGC slush fund until the Liberals took office.

As for reciting one of the WCWGA suggestions , wasn't the WCWGA in favour of removing the "revenue cap as well, even though the railway earnings on grain movement with the cap on are very good?

[vvalk]

You never did answer my question as to why the WCWGA didn't bring up 100 million CGC slush fund until the Liberals took office.

As for reciting one of the WCWGA suggestions , wasn't the WCWGA in favour of removing the "revenue cap as well, even though the railway earnings on grain movement with the cap on are very good?

The $100M wasn't accumulated till the liberals took office or was that number known until recently. Nothing to do with the liberals or has the WCWGA been critical of the liberals over this. All press releases have been focused on the CGC. We have mentioned that the ag minister has the power to fix this but we haven't been critical of him in this issue. Please find where the liberals have come into this issue by the WG.
As for revenue cap the WG have thrown out ideas that maybe there should be incentives to move more grain when it's needed from Sept to Feb. the railways like to move 1/12 of the crop every month just like the old wheat board days. Not how the world works. What is Average car movement? around 5500 cars a week or something? Why not pay an incentive on top of the revenue cap for every car shipped over that 5500 cars a week or whatever number that makes sense. WG have not come out saying to scrap the revenue cap.
But forage you probably don't like to be creative on how we can make this system better. Status quo on everything including the marketing system. Probably should still be summer following I guess
Lastly who cares how much revenue the railways make. why does that come into your comments? What if you get $30T more for your product cause you move it to port on time or in the right month but the costs to rail it is $5T or even $10T more

[vvalk]

The $100M wasn't accumulated till the liberals took office or was that number known until recently. Nothing to do with the liberals or has the WCWGA been critical of the liberals over this. All press releases have been focused on the CGC. We have mentioned that the ag minister has the power to fix this but we haven't been critical of him in this issue. Please find where the liberals have come into this issue by the WG.
As for revenue cap the WG have thrown out ideas that maybe there should be incentives to move more grain when it's needed from Sept to Feb. the railways like to move 1/12 of the crop every month just like the old wheat board days. Not how the world works. What is Average car movement? around 5500 cars a week or something? Why not pay an incentive on top of the revenue cap for every car shipped over that 5500 cars a week or whatever number that makes sense. WG have not come out saying to scrap the revenue cap.
But forage you probably don't like to be creative on how we can make this system better. Status quo on everything including the marketing system. Probably should still be summer following I guess
Lastly who cares how much revenue the railways make. why does that come into your comments? What if you get $30T more for your product cause you move it to port on time or in the right month but the costs to rail it is $5T or even $10T more

When I say the liberals took office I don't mean it was there fault I mean the timing. The surplus has come from the last 3 big crops and the data is always fairly delayed in coming to the light

[foragefarmer]

Walk

"But forage you probably don't like to be creative on how we can make this system better. Status quo on everything including the marketing system. Probably should still be summer following I guess"

Just because I'm questioning you about issues relating to the WCWGA, don't assume anything about how I think, manage or operate my farm. You being a member of some farm organization doesn't put you on higher ground.


"Lastly who cares how much revenue the railways make. why does that come into your comments? What if you get $30T more for your product cause you move it to port on time or in the right month but the costs to rail it is $5T or even $10T more. "

Sounds great, why didn't get done during those Harper and Ritz Cracker years, especially when you had the ears of a couple of your past members Maguire and Menzies?