Ritz Budget

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We have an opportunity to build a bio fuel plant in our back yard. We met with Ritz to ask him for "Agri investment tax credits" so we could attract local investment and generate the 10 million we needed to build.

We figured 10 million would be a long shot in the current investment climate without tax credits to individual investors.


You all would have been proud of our presentation;
We cited the need to value add and the opportunity and the need to move the raw commodity base of our agricutlural economy into agri industry and value add. We cited the need to attract investors and reward patient capital with tax credits. We cited proof that
incentives build industry (Bombardier the Auto industry) we suggested we needed the same to jump start the long promised value add industyr for Ag.


We have an impressive list and a case that everyone agrees with.

If the budget is what you say it is, then the same plan of inaction towards this long promised reality is as elusive under the Conservatives as it was under the Liberals.

Plus ca change; plus ca rest la meme.

Ritz still has a day, let us hope.

[haveapulse]

The time is now to diversify the comodity based ag sector into value add.

If we have a billion new money into agriculture and this government fails to realize that builders/pioneers should be the most prized citizens of this nation, and rewarded by fiscal policy with a long overdue plan to begin to diversify our commodity based export economy, we must ask some very serious questions to our elected members in our ridings. Will the real capitalists please stand up.

We need builders in our communities and in Ottawa.

Not more jobs in Admin.

[haveapulse]

Err (no more jobs in Admin) I digress, one exception we should all leave our names open to be appointed to be a Senator from Saskatchewan, or PEI even if we do not live Ontario.

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I heard a little of this on friday. Is the government going to announce tax credits for new machinery.

Anyone know? I have been googling to find Ritz's announcement.

I am not buying anything new but these plans seem to bring some good used equip to the market.

[haveapulse]

As TOM4, pointed out they have machinery tax credits in Quebec and Newfoundland, seems when we lost ours they kept them as I understand.

When we met with Minister Ritz we advised him of this and suggested that investment tax credits would greatly enable investment in value add business, needless to say machinery tax credits would be nice too.

We will wait with baited breath, knowing how much we long time supporters of the blue machine in the west deserve equitable policy in Canada.

Leveling the playing field across Canada with Tax credits would be a great place to begin.