Wheat board monopoly to end
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Just undemocratic, since they conveniently left out a third option.
I won't argue that farmers are heavily subsidized. But they do pay taxes, and services charges, albeit, also subsidized. So they do contribute to infrastructure.
Would it matter when currect votes mean nothing to Ritz and CPC? Would that choice be honoured the same way the current choice has been honoured with a great big "**** you!"?
Why should we accept a "**** you"?
The elevators were built on the rail lines in/around townships where there were farming operations.
On that note, while the wheat farmers were not handed the bill for road construction, neither were the vegetable farmers, hardware store operators or the gvt agents that employed the roads as well.
The difference between the wheat farmers and the rest of the aforementioned is that they were not forced to deal with only one source for their product/service (gvt agents notwithstanding).
We're kinda on the same page - to a point.
My contention is that someone has to pay for that cheap food policy and in the case of the CWB and Western wheat growers, I believe that they were/are paying a disproportionate share for that policy.. If I were to boil it down further, I'd say that applying that program/policy to Western farmers and not their Eastern counter-parts was a move that is more than worthy of extra analysis.
LMFAO...The elevators and rainline came long long before the grid roads. CWB returned profits to the producers. Would a private middle man do the same?
I have no knowledge about the reason behind allowing choice in eastern Canada but not western Canada. For all I know it was like the NEP and there was a thread of common sense to it.
Volume. Like I posted before Wal-Mart has parking lots bigger than ON and PQ grain operations.
Kudos... You can read... And you formed a post that wasn't only questions and deflections.
Now, all you need to do is work on interpretation.
It was never suggested that the elevators were built around townships that had roads... Only in areas where there were farming operations.
Still LMFAO-ing, or do ya feel a little stupid right about now?
Lower profits than what would have been realized.
Give your head a shake.. If the CWB was everything that you say it is, ALL wheat farmers in Canada would have been legislated to be a part of it.
You've dug your hole so deep that you can't see out of it..
Man-up and move on already.
I understand that western Canada has bigger farms. That doesn't really explain why easterners were given an a choice while westerners weren't.
Yeah I am. Rail was the road that towns were built upon. Towns are placed a specific distance a part so that a producers didn't have to travel further than six miles hauling grain by horse and wagon. That's what happens when you let private enterprise like the CPR design your province.
Where are the elevators and rail lines now?
You seem to have all the answers for my situation. Why don't you know about them?
Bottlenecking.
What a hoot... There was no money to develop this entire nation all those years ago, and yet somehow, today, Petros can look back and see a 'Big-Rail' conspiracy.
This is great stuff... You ought to write a book or at least start up a website.
Not necessarily. Some may just not like government or being told what to do even if it is for their own benefit (look at seat belt legislation) and there will always be those that feel the grass is always greener on the other side.
That would be dealt with if prairie farmers had the ability to truck their product down to Montana or N. Dakota
History is a conspiracy? Lay off sucking the glass dick. It's Sunday for **** sakes.
MT and ND don't have the facilities to handle CDN volumes. They'll say the samething as the Feds. **** off.
Volume takes care of all that Cannuck, they make 1000 loaves of bread with as much effort as my wife takes for one. Do health inspectors send a bill? I doubt it. I wasn't complaining about the extra cost, I was complaining about the inflated extra cost. :smile:
But in one sense you are right, Unions have a propensity for driving up prices! :smile:
That still will not explain why the legislation stopped at the Manitoba/Ontario border.
What is the difference in cost between your wife's bread making equipment and the bread company's. How much does it cost in freight to get your wife's bread to your dinner table. How much do you pay your wife and what are her payroll taxes like (I was thinking specifically about Workers Comp)
BTW, I make the bread in my house. Why don't you get off your ass and help your wife.