chuckchuck: I certainly don't have all the answers to the farm crisis. I do think that bio fuel is one more market that will help the small farm. Personally I believe when you depopulate the rural areas of Canada for large corporate agriculture, we will lose something that actually had value? Obviously you see it different.
Government intervention in any walk of life is a tightrope we all have to walk? Is the government there to protect the individual or the corporate world? The Kings duty is to take care of his subjects?
I don't know if Ritter is correct when he says "single desk...or no CWB...no other option"? I don't know if Strahl is right when he says there is a third option? The CWB is its own worst enemy...it created the dissatisfaction by not changing to meet the needs of its clients?
How is it that only farmers in the DA are subject to the single desk? I think Alberta, at least, would opt out if given a chance? When they have the plebicite on barley should they count the votes provincially and let provinces stay in or opt out on that result?
I truly doubt you would find any Canadian farmer who doesn't think
bio fuel is a good idea? Now for sure it is sort of a "green subsidy" that will not "save" the environment 100%!...but we have to start somewhere...and every little bit helps!
You are very correct when you say Europe and the US are not going to end subsidies. Does that mean Canada should fall even further behind? Aren't we supposed to be a wealthy developed country? Do we let our rural population vanish because we were too cheap to put a few bucks into rural peoples survival? Maybe we could scrap official bilingulism or some other useless government program to save a few farmers?
Government intervention in any walk of life is a tightrope we all have to walk? Is the government there to protect the individual or the corporate world? The Kings duty is to take care of his subjects?
I don't know if Ritter is correct when he says "single desk...or no CWB...no other option"? I don't know if Strahl is right when he says there is a third option? The CWB is its own worst enemy...it created the dissatisfaction by not changing to meet the needs of its clients?
How is it that only farmers in the DA are subject to the single desk? I think Alberta, at least, would opt out if given a chance? When they have the plebicite on barley should they count the votes provincially and let provinces stay in or opt out on that result?
I truly doubt you would find any Canadian farmer who doesn't think
bio fuel is a good idea? Now for sure it is sort of a "green subsidy" that will not "save" the environment 100%!...but we have to start somewhere...and every little bit helps!
You are very correct when you say Europe and the US are not going to end subsidies. Does that mean Canada should fall even further behind? Aren't we supposed to be a wealthy developed country? Do we let our rural population vanish because we were too cheap to put a few bucks into rural peoples survival? Maybe we could scrap official bilingulism or some other useless government program to save a few farmers?
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