What the Media is Saying

[parsley]

Broadcast News
22 March, 2003


OTTAWA -- Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl is expecting to get the results of the barley plebiscite early next week.


OTTAWA -- Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl is expecting to get the results of the barley plebiscite early next week.

Vote administrator K-P-M-G plans to count the votes on the Canadian Wheat Board's barley monopoly beginning Saturday.

Strahl says he has been told the count could be done by Sunday.

He says as soon as he gets the results, he'll take it to cabinet and decide how to proceed.

Strahl says he doesn't know yet when he'll release the results publicly.


Farmers who have lobbied for years for the right to bypass the Canadian Wheat Board sense victory is just around the corner.

But wheat board chairman Ken Ritter has said farmers should have to go through a second plebiscite if Ottawa wants to change the Canadian Wheat Board Act and eliminate its monopoly.

UNQUOTE



Ritter must have shares in KPMG

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[parsley]

Excerpts From Today's GLOBE AND MAIL

Report on Business Section


"WORLD TRADE Economic organizations take Canada to task

Cite foreign investment restrictions, trade barriers and poor productivity growth"


"The Economist Intelligence Unit, affiliated with The Economist magazine, warned in a report yesterday that Canada faces challenges in preserving its status as one of the most business-friendly countries in the world."

"Separately, the World Trade Organization report, which reviewed Canada's trade policies for the first time since 2003, said Ottawa's subsidization of agriculture has increased in the last three years."

"The WTO singled out Canada for slapping more than 200-per-cent duties on foreign eggs, poultry and dairy, and for operating a monopoly sales agency for Western Canadian wheat and barley, noting that Ottawa is working on phasing out the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk marketing powers."

"*** Tax rates Percentage of marginal tax rates on capital, 2005 *** Canada 39% Brazil 39 United States 38 Germany 37 Russia 35 Japan 34 France 33 India 24 Australia 24 Britain 22 Czech Republic 18 Switzerland 17 Mexico 17 Ireland 14 SOURCES: C.D. HOWE INSTITUTE AND THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT"


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[parsley]

National Post
22 March, 2007
Excerpts from Financial Post


"WTO slams Canadian trade walls


Canada should dismantle "significant" trade barriers it uses to protect its wheat, dairy and other agricultural producers, the World Trade Organization said yesterday.

In a review of Canadian trade policies, WTO said Ottawa applies tariffs exceeding 200% on some imports of chicken, turkey, eggs and dairy, and runs a monopoly on Western Canadian wheat and barley sales at the Canadian Wheat Board."

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[lakenheath]

Thank God we don't have Amercican milk coming into this country. I am glab that I know we are drinking safe Canadian milk, not that crap druged milk they push on people in the states. I for one, am very grateful for our dairy quota system. I don't feel like going out the milk my own cow just to ensure that the milk I feed my family is safe. Put a 500% tariff on milk, see if I care.

[nw9flynn]

How can we expect other countries to end there subsidies when we do the exact same in the supply managed sector. Supply management us B.S. Free Trade is what the world should strive for and we definitly are not doing our part. I highly doubt that there is anything wrong with US milk.

[wilagro]

I am 100% in favour of Supply Management for dairy, egg, and poultry production. This OUR country, and we should have policies that protect and enhance the viability of OUR farm enterprises.

The WTO is nothing but a cabal of self-interested countries looking after one thing...enhanced PROFITS for a handful of nations and powerful companies. The WTO has squawked for years about the CWB and they want it GONE. With the CWB GONE, they can do what they want with grain trading and it would not necessarily be in our favour either.

We have had to defend ourselves against these thieves for years.

[lakenheath]

nw9flynn,

Do a little bit of research on what they put into US milk. It will make you sick to your stomach. It is almost a crime against humanity as what is going on in the states with the milk that is fed to their people.

All forced on people by giant multi-nationals that are raking in millions on the milk enhancing drugs that they pump into the animals down there. Those drugs are banned in Canada for a reason (they have been deemed unsafe for human consumption).

[lakenheath]

And you want products like that free flowing into Canada?

[parsley]

1.Canadian Product

I am holding a 250ml container of Dairyland Whipping cream
Ingredients:Cream, milk, Milk Ingredients, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Locust Bean Gum, Sodium Citrate, May or may not be present in the order listed.

You prefer this, correct?

2. New Zealand product

Spent 3 weeks in New Zealand
Only Ingredient: Cream
only product available

3. Spent 1 month in Manhatten

Ingredient: Cream

Was available
Other choices as well

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[parsley]

Needless to say, I prefer choice.

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[almoy]

Parsley, It is the hormones, etc. that the US gives their cows so they produce more milk. The practice is banned in Canada as it is considered unsafe.

[parsley]

Choice entails many things almoy, including harmone-free cows.

That's what choice is.

Roll the word over yout tongue so you get accustomed to it.

Choice. Choice.
Breath deeply and think.

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[Fransisco]

Really the hormones you say?

The very same exact hormones that the cows naturally produce themselves.

Oh yeah that's a real crime against humanity.

I'm with parsley, give me choice. If you jokers want to pay 50% above the world price for milk you go right ahead.

Right now its not just the cows that are getting milked.

[wd9]

Like aspartame and other food additives that many 'claim' are unsafe especially wacky websites but aren't and are considered food safe.

Either you believe in the regulatory system in the US and Canada or you end up with the EU system of precautionary principle. In that model even GM canola we have been eating for 10 years is unsafe along with thousands of other additives someone 'feels' are unsafe, not proves they are safe.

Like a few posts ago, do a search on canola oil and find out it is used to make everything from paint to mustard gas. Is toxic and will kill you just by looking at the bottle. All lies.

[AdamSmith]

"I don't feel like going out the (to) milk my own cow just to ensure that the milk I feed my family is safe."
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I see some are already getting the fearmongering talking points down and ready to move on to the next socialist sacred cows. (pun intended)

Maybe it's just me, but I think arguing that supply management is all that stands between Canadians and death by milk mustaches is maybe just a tad extreme.

What's next suicide bomber cows?

Or the terrorist (sorry, freedom fighters) dariy farmers oganizations like Al-COWda and HaMOOs?