blueblood

Just like cheap food over the past decade was a welfare handout to consumers at the expense of food producers. Come now you can't have your cake and eat it too. We needed this. There were people starving before this biofuel thing and there will be people starving no matter what. The market was dangerously flooded, this sort of throws it back into balance that makes it profitable for smaller scale guys to stay in (2000 acre boys like myself). The tories didn't make it a 10% mandatory content for this very reason. I think its a smart way to get rid of wasted produce. With us making some money which leads to spending money it helps out the economy. The only thing i'd be scared of is inflation rearing its ugly head due to this.

For the same reason we don't pull the plug on our military and hire mercenaries to do our fighting for us.

Well like so many people have stated farming is a business. We want to make money and should, now that the demand is there why should we take a loss so people can have cheap food? Nobody is entitled to cheap food. A lot of farmers have gone broke due to a cheap food policy, now that we have biofuel we can finally market our stuff without flooding the food market. The only way to secure a cheap food supply is with supply management due to the biofuel industry taking off in the developing world. An industry that is creating jobs and boosting the economy. If Canada is smart we can use this to our advantage and take the pressure off of the oil industry as the only thing that keeps Canada's economy afloat.

How about Dauphin-Swan River?

It never ceases to amaze me that every single soldier and leader in the military is conservative down to the bone. Do people get recruited by the army based on a how-conservative-you-are test? Given how conservative the Canadian military is, is it really OUR military, or the Conservative's military? If you were given order to catch and kill 10 thousand "communists", would you even stop to think about it? You know, Chile wasn't a police state until a similarly conservative General Pinochet led a coup d'état deposing the democratically-elected President Salvador and established a military government (killing 30 thousand + "socialists" along the way). Pakistan wasn't a police state either until General Musharraf did the same. And then there is Colonel Gaddafi and another military coup. And then General Idi Amin and his military government...Need I continue? Oh you know theres not one without the other, Cuba, Iran (socialist somewhat), Good old USSR, the Eastern Bloc, China (in theory), North Korea, etc.

We have police officers in the streets armed to the teeth. Is there a problem with job creation, 75,000 full time jobs isn't a bad idea. Oh and they sometimes go in the streets, I've seen a couple APC's driving around Brandon, saw a couple of guns too. Didn't seem to bother anyone.

That's why I go to FBC which is the farm version of H&R block. Sure it's pricy, but the books get done and done well.

The problem i have with the whole kyoto thing is that it's been neglected for so long and to meet the targets in time would be unfeasible unless you shut down a good portion of our economy. The other way to meet it would be through the carbon credit deal and I have a HUGE problem with sending my tax dollars to other countries so they can alledgedly try and fix their problems. We have a biofuel industry chomping at the bit to go, if the libs are wanting to throw money around, throw money at that.

Federally, they have been hurt both Liberal and Green party rises in the polls. If they are seen as to close the Tories, it will hurt their base. They are already down from the election. I'd wait until the campaign after they can put some spin on it.

At the moment, I think the Green Party might eat the NDP's lunch. NDP runs pretty solid campaigns though plus they have some accomplishments.

We'll have to see. It would be good to have farmers get a break but somehow they always get the pointy end of the stick. We'll get it on inputs, oh well in keeping with the thread, they'll also be making money. In my view ag is in a sort of renaissance right now. The economic possibities are there for a profitable industry.

Non-existent? Manitoba has had an NDP government for nearly eight years and haven't run a deficit yet. They've reduced taxes though. But Layton likes to promise and what not, the Manitoba NDP isn't extravagant like the feds are. the roads in manitoba are garbage though, plus if your an industry requesting funding then forget it.

I wonder what the deficit would be if Layton got in? He'd have to bring in some of his priorities with him, i'd say quite a few priorities would stay.

A lot of people don't believe there is any threat from a nation. Running around Afghanistan with our hands tied is doesn't help either. I believe a threat can come anytime at anywhere. Don't a lot of democratic countries have mandatory service? The majority of the country want money spend on luxuries like daycare and fun stuff like that and would accuse those who spend money on the military as fear mongering. A lot of people on the left think we live in this utopian world where countries are always going to respect each other and play by the rules. You can't predict the future but by having a respectable military, we can at least be prepared.

I was saying that it was the pope who helped destroy communism in eastern europe. He is a guy who has a lot of influence and respect. I'd even go to say if there was a terror attack on the vatican you can kiss Islam goodbye.

I can see the NDP even gaining some seats, they can campaign on their accomplishments again. I can see if it's going to be a minority parliament again the NDP will benefit. If polls suggest majority, they will become irrelevant.

Gotta love how Harper makes fun of Dion's dog. Now I understand where the CPCers around here get it from. Their party leader teaches them to ignore the message & attack the messenger. Or his dog. Or kids. Or education. Or anything to deflect focus away from the facts. Oh come now we're not all that bad

This is dependent on a good crop don't forget. I hope we have a good crop this year but every time we do, commodity prices go down. Not last harvest. approx. 5 bucks for wheat and 8.50 for canola and it being bumper. 30 bu/acre for canola is not hard to get at all. With that law passed 50% of our crop will be fuel not to mention exports we already have. Look what the ethanol industry is doing for corn, it's ridiculous

Holy crap you know there's a problem when a righty and a lefty are in agreement over this. You forgot about the government of Canada's right to expropriation.

This should help things rolling link Maybe inflation might slow down too because that took care of the 1% GST tax cut money I thought I was going to save.

The guy's a drug dealer who pushes drugs on kids, to heck with him. Let me put it this way, I like our extremely low crime rate in rural Canada due to vigilantism, it does happen. I don't have to lock the house, and I can leave the truck idle in the middle of town while getting the mail and not have to worry. Because we take care of ourselves I get to live in peace, mr. drug dealer has to worry about getting his clock cleaned possibly worse. It's a culture thing. Since you guys rely on people to take care of you and the police (whose hands are tied 90% of the time) to keep you safe, what do you guys have? a gong show. When mr. drug dealer's "rights" (to pollute and destroy young minds) are taken seriously, a big mess like this happens. This particular guy was already convicted, he should never have been released.

Why do you feel the need to weigh ones rights against anothers rights ? They both have rights, it really is not hard to understand. The father trampled his rights, the dead kid NEVER trampled the girls rights. She willingly went and did drugs. Now she can willingly go and visit dad in jail. Society knows one cannot trample others rights and get away with it. To think that a drug dealer doesn't push drugs on anyone is naive. You must be fine with religious people advertising in high school because after all the kids minds aren't impressionable. This drug dealer trampled over the girl's rights and others and paid the price.

Being gay is not pushing anything on anyone, a drug dealer pushes drugs on people. Big problem. So the right the drug dealers have are more important than the girl's rights? should this girl have to die so the drug dealer could be free to mess up the minds of others and ruin other's lives? To me one dead drug dealer is better off than 10 dead kids or 10 kids so messed up that death is better than the life they're living. It's the lesser of two evils. Society needs to learn we can't have it all.

See mikedavid00's reaction I don't care who you are that's funny right there, if you can't laugh at that you need to leave.

By "the mighty" I meant the Catholic Church of which the Pope is the top-figure. IOW how the once most powerful establishment on earth is now down to a "bent old man" (borrowing your description here) whose words fall on deaf ears. The similar words which helped destroy communism in eastern europe???