Irrigation project cost would exceed return to provincial government

[WiltonRanch]

I’m certainly no big farmer and found fcc great to help me out getting going. Banks were no where close to the terms fcc could provide. Now this was 14 years ago and since then requirements have definitely tightened up. They do give priority to the younger and more growth oriented.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Last time I tried to get rates from FCC, they weren't even close to competitive with the Credit Union we currently use. It sounded like most of the advantages were in flexibility, what they would approve and what they required as collateral.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Ask any small farmers about FCC and they will tell you how hard it is to get a loan!

Define small farmer.

[TSIPP]

I never got any help 25 years ago from FCC, I just busted my ass framing houses instead, revenue Canada really set me back, try and make some money so I could support my family and ranch and the government scammers come out of the woodwork.

[newguy]

Explain "favours", then an example.

I would say Bill Boyd did his landlord a favour.I would say the government paying ot Brandt with taxpayer government so quick is favour And hire an overseas company that had to buy all its equipment is a favour to Brandt.Now this irrigation project is a favour to many construction companies while the ER is at 350% capacity and schools are past full before Moe starts to build another.

[chuckChuck]

Chuck, you have your isms mixed up. All the isms you listed, racism, sexism, misogynism etc are improving everywhere except the media.
The growing economic inequality you correctly point out is the inevitable result of a completely different ism. The growing socialism.
Happens every single time it has been tried.

But you have no credible answer for the growing inequality in Canada as reported by Stats Canada blaming it on socialism which you often claim does the opposite by trying to make people more equal? Huh? Do you even know what you wrote because you contradicted yourself!

Why did you run away from your bogus claim that we are more equal when I proved you were wrong again?

You are all talk and no evidence! A very confused bull shitter in other words!

Or to put it into language an Albertan can understand, All hat and no cattle!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

But you have no credible answer for the growing inequality in Canada as reported by Stats Canada blaming it on socialism which you often claim does the opposite by trying to make people more equal?

Trying. The key word in your diatribe is "trying". And like all top down government attempts to solve perceived problems, it fails catastrophically. As you correctly point out in the case of increasing income inequality during an era where socialism has increased.

Back to your original accusation about racism etc. Do you have any stats to authenticate any connection between racism, etc. and income inequality?

You might be surprised at what the actual statistics reveal.

[chuckChuck]

Public health care, education and progressive tax systems are all examples of government success. And PP is not planning to get rid of any of them.

So are first nations better off by any social measure than the rest of Canadians?

No

Lower life expectancy, poorer, deficiency of health care and education and a history of systemic racism.

Dispossessed of their land and resources and starved onto reserves in many cases.

[WiltonRanch]

Public health care, education and progressive tax systems are all examples of government success. And PP is not planning to get rid of any of them.

So are first nations better off by any social measure than the rest of Canadians?

No

Lower life expectancy, poorer, deficiency of health care and education and a history of systemic racism.

Dispossessed of their land and resources and starved onto reserves in many cases.

The present liberal government has spent more in legal costs in the past two years than the Harper did in 10 fighting natives in court over a wide range of issues pertaining to self governance, funding etc. This isn’t a liberal better than conservative thing. This is a system rigged against natives to keep them contained on the Rez uneducated. Why is there an act and a whole government department assigned to keeping a broken system going? Natives are managed like the DNR manages moose. How dehumanizing is that? For you and your wife to come on here and scream racism and every other ism from the belfry takes away from an intelligent discussion. If a government can do this to a segment of the population, what could they do to us or trying to do to us?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Meanwhile, the solution is well within chucks reach. With the stroke of a pen he could give his 6,000 acres of stolen farmland back to its rightful owners.

That would seem like a more meaningful and useful approach than the current tactic of calling everyone else a racist