Small business can't survive a sales drop..?

[Oliver88]

$82 billion in subsidies buys a lot of votes in Toronto, Montreal and Maritimes but leaves the rest of us with a lot of debt.

[bucket]

That is not correct, Trudeau's exact words this morning were " for primary agriculture producers we will boost Farm Credit Canada".

I heard that....what the phuck does that mean???????

[Sheepwheat]

Giving employers a 10% wage subsidy payment so they will be able to keep employees working but if you are a farmer go get another loan.

If they lend it to you in the first place. Fcc is a joke lender for a small farm with new ideas.

[Misterjade9]

If they lend it to you in the first place. Fcc is a joke lender for a small farm with new ideas.

Or a farmer who came to the game late and didn't fall into their target demographics. Was told once by a FCC representative that I was "painted with a certain brush".

[Misterjade9]

I heard that....what the phuck does that mean???????

Who knows. it is just lip service anyways.

[ajl]

Or a farmer who came to the game late and didn't fall into their target demographics. Was told once by a FCC representative that I was "painted with a certain brush".

Was the target demographic the farming is easy- just need to upgrade technology 'agvocate' types that have a lot of previous generation equity blowing on their sails?

[wmoebis]

Giving employers a 10% wage subsidy payment so they will be able to keep employees working but if you are a farmer go get another loan.

Would farmers rather get the 10% wage subsidy so you can keep employees? Lots of small businesses are ran by husband and wives or with kids and don't qualify for the 10% or EI. I know small business owners that would gladly trade to have access to $100,000.00 interest free loan right now.

[blackpowder]

Sounds like most here been inside too long. Comparing Western Canadian farms to other Canadian small businesses has always been ridiculous for various reasons.
An awful lot of people are going to hurt real bad real soon. How many here rely on outside child care in order to work a mediocre salaried job for instance?? As of this week you can't work for one reason or another.
Life savings in a restaurant? Too bad!
This is really going to effect the lower half of our society. Immediately.
An acre will always be seeded by somebody. You selfish Hicks think it's always going to be you??
You want to prop up $5000/ac land so your son can lead a charmed life??

[fjlip]

Absolutely, we all chose wisely to go all in, high risk, for 50 years! We did our share/time of getting f*cked over by society/world consumers eating for 1970's primary producer prices.

[blackpowder]

I agree, but right now it's the other 98% that's going to suffer and immediately. I can always live off my life savings in land.

[bucket]

Sounds like most here been inside too long. Comparing Western Canadian farms to other Canadian small businesses has always been ridiculous for various reasons.
An awful lot of people are going to hurt real bad real soon. How many here rely on outside child care in order to work a mediocre salaried job for instance?? As of this week you can't work for one reason or another.
Life savings in a restaurant? Too bad!
This is really going to effect the lower half of our society. Immediately.
An acre will always be seeded by somebody. You selfish Hicks think it's always going to be you??
You want to prop up $5000/ac land so your son can lead a charmed life??

Surely you must jest ....the same logic of someone seeding the land can be used for a restaurant as well...

Society has to take their licking like farmers have been ...most of this money is to help shareholders that want their cake but don't want to pay for it...

Ffs I phoned my conservative MP office....all of a sudden we are all in this together...well I for one don't like paying to bring someone home from a holiday while I stare at crop in the field ...

[LEP]

Surely you must jest ....the same logic of someone seeding the land can be used for a restaurant as well...

Society has to take their licking like farmers have been ...most of this money is to help shareholders that want their cake but don't want to pay for it...

Ffs I phoned my conservative MP office....all of a sudden we are all in this together...well I for one don't like paying to bring someone home from a holiday while I stare at crop in the field ...

Until you have been in retail you have no f'in clue. When no one comes through the door for 2 weeks most will hurt bad, 4 weeks and we are talking liquidation.

Don't think low oil prices, hurting ag and rail blockades haven't impacted small town retail already. Now add this which essentially stops traffic to things like rinks, restaurants, theatres. Malls are vacant.

Some retail stores are sending employees home. Most small businesses work with very small amounts of working capital and have very little to borrow against. Now shock their system with this ... many won't recover.

It's like farming with no owned land.