dismantel the CWB ?
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Maybe I already do....and if I did it would be on the home quarter. The back 40 is 7miles away (I'm not an ON weekend hobby producer) and that's a bit far.
loggers do not make lumber they cut down trees, other people that work at a mill make lumber. We used to do this in canada, but we found it cheaper to have less jobs in canada?
I guess that i am dreaming every morning as I drive to work at a lumber remanufacturing plant.
Speak for yourself but I made lumber out of some of the wood I logged. Mostly from the salvage wood but I found it was not gaining me a lot of money for much more paperwork and waiting longer to get paid. My late uncle OTH supplied his own mill for about 40 years.
It isn't so much that we found it cheaper to have less jobs in Canada it is more that the people that create the jobs found it more cost efficient to operate where it is possible to break even on production costs. There are several made in Canada problems with operating a mill here, especially on the coast. One is the high union wage packages another is the shear volume of rules and regulations and the ability to tax by multiple levels of government. Only government enterprises can operate at a loss forever.
Loggers don't have to make lumber but those who would earn money by making it, protested the sale of raw logs to China, just about a week ago or so, right here downtown. They need to work too.
Aren't you lucky. Not everyone is because of the sale of raw logs off this Island.
This Island is very Pro NDP and NDP is very pro union. They don't seem to realize that without the union they might actually have a job even if it doesn't pay quite as high. Or - it might pay higher. It all comes down to how well your union cares to represent you and SOM union for example, doesn't do much. Too many union reps in bed with the employer.
You and everyone else who could!! I have a friend whose son-in-law changed his crop (in Sask) to Canola. He's making a small fortune. Just built himself a big big beautiful house. His wife's mother had pictures of it all over FB.
Checked out the price of bread lately. Over $2.00/loaf. Bit silly, that. Wait till they cancel the CWB!!
Just to compare:
Maybe a whole different kettle of fish, but in NY state, dairy farmers are allowed to sell to whomever to get the best price they can. Well managed dairy farms have gone bust trying.
In Ontario, OMMB guarantees the farmer a good price for milk, and ensures we don't get gutted at the supermarket.
One has to buy milk quota to get started, and it therefore costs a lot, and it's very difficult to get a new dairy operation off the ground. It also ensures we are safe from fly - by - night operations.
Sometimes ya need govt. oversight, regulation, and control.
Canada may not be first in the race to the bottom, but, by jeebus, we're catching up!!
Just to compare:
Maybe a whole different kettle of fish, but in NY state, dairy farmers are allowed to sell to whomever to get the best price they can. Well managed dairy farms have gone bust trying.
In Ontario, OMMB guarantees the farmer a good price for milk, and ensures we don't get gutted at the supermarket.
One has to buy milk quota to get started, and it therefore costs a lot, and it's very difficult to get a new dairy operation off the ground. It also ensures we are safe from fly - by - night operations.
Sometimes ya need govt. oversight, regulation, and control.
Canada may not be first in the race to the bottom, but, by jeebus, we're catching up!!
I voted against but democracy means jack **** in Canada. Ritz basically told us to **** off.
That ****er Ritz is going to kill the board tomorrow when 62% of producers want to keep it.
Perhaps Mr Sh!tz should fess up about doing this becuase of the massive foreign farms being set up in Canada.
Perhaps Mr Sh!tz should fess up about doing this becuase of the massive foreign farms being set up in Canada.
The Wheat Board was set up for a specific reason.. to manage the boom and bust cycles in prices of grain.. that destroyed wheat farming on the prairies during the Great Depression. It's part of the credulity of Harper's government that these cycles no longer apply in a Global market for food, when in fact they have been made more acute by them.
This move replaces managed marketing of wheat in the national interest that protects farmers and consumers, from the ravages of unencumbered market forces. As we have seen since 2008, these forces are a wild beast when unleashed, that will destroy a comprehensive food strategy for the long term, for short term profits, based on speculative production. It will result in inflationary pressure of all food, and ultimately as markets collapse to a destruction of productive capability.. either way it produces starvation.
Harper is such a little ass wipe for the Global Investment Organism. He is selling out Canada for the bones they throw him a reliable poodle.
This move replaces managed marketing of wheat in the national interest that protects farmers and consumers, from the ravages of unencumbered market forces. As we have seen since 2008, these forces are a wild beast when unleashed, that will destroy a comprehensive food strategy for the long term, for short term profits, based on speculative production. It will result in inflationary pressure of all food, and ultimately as markets collapse to a destruction of productive capability.. either way it produces starvation.
Harper is such a little ass wipe for the Global Investment Organism. He is selling out Canada for the bones they throw him a reliable poodle.
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