Locally grown, owned, developed and sold.

[haveapulse]

The title is the slogan of direction to implement value add developemetn.

The following is a copy of a communication sent to leaders in Ottawa, and in Saskatchewan to encourage policy to enable the development of value add industry in Canada

While it may be a wish list, and I do admit is it, the intent of this disussion is to identify fiscal policy targeted at enabling value of add raw commodities, by developed products to the world.

Subject: VALUE ADD vs INFRASTRUCTURE

Value add is long term renewable jobs, which call be localized according to resources.
Infrastructure projects while necessary, are in a specific local and short term projects.

VALUE ADD IS THE NEW NATIONAL POLICY.
The program slogan is ; Locally grown, owned, developed and marketed!

Incentives build jobs and indeed in the case of the original national policy incentives built the west. Now let us have incentives build a new economy!

Please review what is necessary;
1/ investment tax credits for individuals (FLOW THROUGH SHARES??)
2/ matching grants: fed/province
3/ employment tax credits
4/ Lending program sensitive to start up costs in the first 10 years
5/ PST and GST exemption on new building
6/ legislation to support raw commodities becoming value added commodities
ie: Bio Diesel B5 MANDATE
flour not wheat
malt not barley
toilet tissue not pulp

7/ passion for growth
8/ awareness of our local strategic advantages
9/ action: proactive not reactive
10/ understanding on what it takes to build a job and change the innate job structure of an economy.
An ounce of prevention is building a new job, a lb of cure is bailing out an old job.
11/ Solid jobs, with new skills
12/ REQUIRES NEW TRAINING FOR NEW JOBS

Lets build CANADA upon our raw resources, lets do it today, for a better tomorrow.

Let make it happen, lets make new jobs!


ADDED NOTE;
I believe we spend a lot of money on marketing, crop research & development,
chemical, agronomic research, compartive analysis of all the above, but I believe the best strategic move at this time for our industry is to focus direct and conserted energy and capital on value add industry.

I believe if our industry embraced the value add focus with targeted energy and capital we could achieve amazing results.

I hope the discussion brings to the table many good ideas to move forward
in a proactive manner.

For the discussion let us agree (I will conceed) the capital would be volunteer !

[parsley]

I'm impressed, haveapulse. :>]

Voluntary is the kind of operation I like to see.

I'll pull up a chair.

Mindset determines who comes on board, if loans will be provided, and so on.

We need a manufacturing industry badly. Value-added. The only way to build it is head down, ass up. That of course, eliminates the drones. Western Canada has a fab work ethic.

We must attract people who like to create. Build. See where they can go.

Pars

[cottonpicken]

Tom made some good points on preservation of capital,etc,etc in the other thread.

If your going to do any project,value added or anything else you really have to focus on why your going to be better at it than anyone else.

Things are not always what they seem.

Canadians cannot even process fish off of lake winnepegs shores,because those same fish can be shipped to china processed then shipped back and sold to us at a profit.

I've used that analogy before,but it never grows old in my mind.

What we can kick ass on is exporting commodities,because other people simply dont have enough of them.

[Fransisco]

And why is it hard for our guys to compete on the processing side?

Regulations, taxation, and labour laws, as well as internal and external trade barriers. Governments, Unions and the socialists in all parties keep tying our guys hands and pricing them out of the game. Then they turn around and cry about how foreign countries are stealing our jobs and our industries.

Productive, efficient, competitive. That's what's needed.

It also wouldn't hurt if we pushed saving for a change instead of more debt for consumer spending.

[Fransisco]

Locally grown and owned doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't make an honest buck. I'll take a foreigner who can make money over a local guy who loses it every time.

[classicalliberal]

We can't compete with anything that is labour intensive. Those who can specialize and export those things that we have a comparative advantage producing we should export and import the things that we can't make as competitively. If we can't make local products as cheaply as we can import them, then I say import them.

[haveapulse]

Gotta Admit I was kind of scared to open this up and see what responses I would get, but I guess if we play the right tune we get some harmony... but, Thanks.

I am away for a bit, but I will take this up when I get back.

I do believe we need to identify fiscal policy, and lobby for the changes required to better enable investment, as the time can never be better to build.

Yes, we must identify strategic investment and investors to build upon, but I do believe we must make a conserted effort at this direction as an agenda for our industry.

Ideas are the easy part, making them work day in and day out is the challenge!

Have a great day.

[parsley]

Price is not necessarily the most important factor.

Depends upon who you are targeting.

Taste and food safety are also very important, I have found, working directly with consumers for many years.

Pars

[haveapulse]

I agree Parsley that unique opportunities can be created, where price is not the only deciding factor.

Each and every degree of change and diversification is an important part of the process of mentorship and development of the mindset.

We live in exciting times for our industry!

[classicalliberal]

Private industry and investment is very efficient at creating businesses and industry where they will have the most return. I trust that if the economics are good, you will get your wish.

[mbratrud]

We do not need a whole bunch of money to do these sorts of things, just legislation that encourages it. Flow through shares is a prime example, something that has worked great in the oil industry. Why not ag?

We need good policy and a government that has the balls to try something different.

Ok theres my rant for the day!