Why is Manitoba kicking Saskatchewan ass????

[bucket]

Quite a few plants being built in Manitoba for farm commodities....why isn't the Saskatchewan government in the hunt?????

Roquette
Paterson
Simplot

Is the Sask party MLAs not board material?????

[the big wheel]

Like duhhh we had an ndp government 20 years ago so now we vote for these guys because we are so scared lmao

I drive there often likenight and day they do things for all industries in Sask it’s oil or nothing

[6V53]

Because we have a spend and tax Liberal government in Saskatchewan. Never could vote for Brad Wall he reminded me of a timmed Tommy Douglas.

[the big wheel]

Gotta pay something to act rich can’t wait for another boom. 12% pst coming up. Lmao

[Robertbarlage]

Are those government companies?

[bucket]

Are those government companies?

No..... but no company moves or sets up without government money...

[MBgrower]

Quite a few plants being built in Manitoba for farm commodities....why isn't the Saskatchewan government in the hunt?????

Roquette
Paterson
Simplot

Is the Sask party MLAs not board material?????

big tax incentive, more corporate welfare, and wont help the oat price to the farmer.

[bucket]

The oat announcement made no mention of the province helping out but it seems they would....


No performance standard on the incentive's or back to the primary producer...

Maybe they will have to import oats
...

Never help for the primary producer.....

[Zephyr]

Why does Manitoba have the most efficient Sask wheat pool elevator?


AgPro Justice put through more grain than any other terminal in the SWP network


Infrastructure.


Manitoba has direct connections to the US through interstates and railways. It has a northern port that's open again. It's close to eastern shipping via Thunder Bay.


MB has cheaper electricity and 3-phase almost everywhere. I can't believe you guys in Sask are happy with that dinky ass 1 cable meandering through fields bullshit.


Labour is cheaper than in the west too.


As far as the comment about oat prices, hell we're usually a buck a bushel better out here than you guys in Sask. So all these plants must be making us some money.


I used to grow a lot of oats and haul it to Portage can-oat.

[MBgrower]

The oat announcement made no mention of the province helping out but it seems they would....


No performance standard on the incentive's or back to the primary producer...

Maybe they will have to import oats
...

Never help for the primary producer.....

Winnipeg FreePress:

A $94-million oat processing plant, which will create 70 jobs inside the Perimeter Highway, nearly ended up in the United States, said the head of the locally owned food giant Paterson GlobalFoods.

After a news conference to announce the project, president and CEO Andrew Paterson said that if the province hadn't agreed to tax increment financing (TIF), the plant would have gone south of the border instead of in the RM of Rosser.

"We approached the government and I told them I felt a duty as a citizen of the province of Manitoba to give Manitoba the opportunity to have this particular plant," said Paterson. He applauded Premier Brian Pallister and Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler, who were at the news conference, for taking him up on it.

"Without support of the TIF program it would be built in North Dakota," said Paterson.

TIF legislation allows the province to use the incremental education-related property taxes created by the new development to invest back into the project for a limited amount of time.

Pallister thanked Paterson for investing in Manitoba and creating jobs that keep young people from having to leave the province.

The construction of O Foods Ltd. will begin in the next few months and take 16 months. The oat mill will be near Centreport and Paterson's fertilizer plant and inland grain terminal. It's a good location with good logistics, said the head of the company.

"We have serviced farmers in this region since 1908," said Paterson. "They're the reason for our business. They're our customers and they're great people. We have three railways that come in here."