What will you be watching this week/strategies

[charliep]

To keep the threads from going 100 % politics (don't think markets care who is in power in Canada), what factors will you be following this week? Strategies employed?

1) Grain and oilseed markets continue to tank into new lows. I highlights fundamentals in here (world supplies still tight) and the impact of a world news media that is on a feeding frenzy of bad news. World financial situation is dire but there a number of not so bad fall outs for the grain sector (lower input costs, cheaper loonie, lower ocean freight rates, etc.).

2) What risk managment strategies (or for that matter price enhancement is talking already sold crops) are available/should be considered?

3) Outcome of the CWB director elections next week. The activities in Ottawa push the focus for change in the CWB back to the B or D table. Will find it interesting to see what happens to programs like malt barley cashplus and flexpro in 2009/10.

[Choice2U]

We can only hope the GG calls the election.

God help us all if that retard Dion is governing this country.

Isn't funny that the Liberals were going to can this loser after the election for the seats he lost.......now they want him to govern the country!!!!!

If the GG brings in these losers, I will never vote again. The people told Ottawa in October who we wanted as PM. This isn't a democracy it's a dictatorship!!!

[agstar77]

We have been accepting it for years, don't you know how much Harper was shoving at Quebec and Ontario? We might get a better deal from the new government as they will have keep up appearances to mollify the rednecks.

[parsley]

The trio of traitors were such a spectacle on Parliament Hill today, I was tempted not to comment on their actions, but perhaps there comes from them a message for us to ponder. And vice versa.

When I made the initial November 28th post outlining what was probably to come, some of my friends thought me quite mad, and countered with the argument that the Harper Government was elected fair and square, and that was that.

Here's Message #1...There is no fairness, nor common decency, nor gentleman's behavior, nor code of ethics in our elected officials, anymore. We live in a world of a 'push the rules to the limit' mentality, and a 'break the stupid rule and pay the fifty dollar fine' mindset, and an 'ignore the rules and hope no one notices' kind of world. Get accustomed to it. In my observer-experience, the courts have finetuned the the new world. Professionals have written the "How to" books for running the new world , and Governments have paid for it all, and only acted in their regulatory capacity if it meant a few extra votes.

#2 We are a runaway nation. Nobody, and I mean nobody knows where this wreck is heading.

So what do we do?<a href=”http://www.parsleysnotebook.blogspot.com/”target=”blank”> Click Here to Visit Parsley’s Notebook Blog to Read More. </a>

[agstar77]

Because you are so modest and unassuming, I was sure you wouldn't comment.

[parsley]

If you want an alternative to standing in line, hand out,cap in hand, waiting for a rebate back on your commodities, so that your family can live, pull up your slleves and present an alternative:

1. Spend one day studying how Norway successfully and peacefully seceded from Sweden
2. Write up a draft proposal on how the West can secede from Canada
3. Refine it with friends.
4. Send copies to neighbors; circulate the idea, on AV, too.
5. Send it to your provincial Governments.
6. Let all those tooling-around -with-our-futures know there is an alternative, and we're "looking at it"

Pars

[parsley]

snappy, the GG doesn't read "hope".

[agstar77]

Why would an election change anything, Mr. Harper did not gain the confidence of a majority of Canadians or win a majority of seats. He must have the agreement of one of the other parties to pass any legislation.

[parsley]

An election is a better alternative than a coup.

[agstar77]

There will be no election. That would be even more insane. If the coalition fails the Liberal- NDP coalition will pay the price and there might be a New Progressive Conservative government not a right wing Harper government.