Résultats pour le hashtag #agriculture
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Keshav Chandra posted an update posté il y a 6 mois 1 semaine
A landmark court battle was won by a Saskathewan farmer against genetically modified seeds on his farm. Recently there was a supreme court ruling in India on the matter too. We need to have policies regulating the use of GM seeds. The following article describes the hell one farmer in Canada went thru but won in the…[En afficher davantage]
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Gordon Neish posted an update posté il y a 1 année 7 mois
#agriculture #health #science Recently the media have been giving a lot of attention to the American cardiologist William Davis who is advocating the elimination of wheat from our diet in his recently released book “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health.” To put this in perspective wheat is the third…[En afficher davantage]
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Corn takes much the same abuse, some people can’t eat them. Don’t eat them end of problem.
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I am on that diet! Meat and fresh leafy veggies. Some fruit. I also eat Ezikiel 4:9 bread as a slice of toast in the morning. I on occasion also eat rice and other food just to diversify my diet! Will see what happens down the road. Don’t eat consistently just one kind of diet.
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Hi Gordon. The problem with wheat may turn out to be that we are not putting a sufficient number of trace minerals into the soil on land where wheat is grown or perhaps into the wheat itself??? A Dr. Joel Wallach has presented a powerful case that we have known how to significantly reduce the incidence of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes…[En afficher davantage]
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Timothy McPhail posted an update posté il y a 8 mois 3 semaines
#agriculture http://lifestock.ca/ A worthwhile event. Support the small farm.
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Jarek Walter posted an update posté il y a 1 année 3 mois
#agriculture #policy
Another reflection on the last Wednesday’s telephone Townhall with Bob Rae. One of the callers placed the question: what was Bob’s position on the supply management? Bob hasn’t provided the answer. We heard that we need to have a debate and look at all aspects of the supply management. It’s interesting that the same week the…[En afficher davantage]-
It seems like many people here are against supply managment, and not to pass judgement on those commenting, but are any of these people farmers? I don’t mean to be rude or exclude or imply that they should be excluded, that is people from the city, but as it has been stated in other posts this is a complicated issue that has to be looked at in…[En afficher davantage]
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During our last convention in Ottawa, the term widely used by speakers was “Evidence Based Policy”.
In this spirit, I would like to focus on the actual evidence we have on hand.
We are assuming that we have tens of thousands small family farms benefiting from the existence of the system. Let’s look at the numbers. At the end of the Second World…[En afficher davantage]
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Jarek Walter posted an update posté il y a 1 année 2 mois
#agriculture
It’s alarming. Viterra, the company controlling 45% of Canada’s grain handling market, is rumored to be a subject of takeover by the British giant Glencore ( http://tinyurl.com/79lta24 ). Previously Vitterra announced that elimination of the CWB monopoly would eventually add between $40-million and $50-million to Viterra’s annual…[En afficher davantage] -
Benjamin Kissin posted an update posté il y a 1 année 2 mois
#agriculture
I was perusing the Globe and Mail, when I came across a story about the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and their Teddy Awards for Government Waste.The Federal Award Winner this year was a $284 Million plan to help ease tobacco farmers out of the tobacco business. While the program was wracked with problems and waste, I think it is a…[En afficher davantage]
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Producers of tobacco products would then be forced to import tobacco from other countries. It would also cause users of tobacco products to start growing their own, at home, in their back yard gardens. Tobacco grow-ops might also ‘crop’ up adding to the cost of enforcement. The last thing we need to do is give the federal government another way…[En afficher davantage]
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I agree with you Mr. Bridges….there are people who are going to smoke in Canada, regardless of the campaigns to stamp it out. I would rather see the few tobacco farmers who remain be able to make a living out of domestic consumption(and all the resultant spin off jobs) than see us have to import every last leaf of tobacco.
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Carolyn A White-Weatherson posted an update posté il y a 1 année 2 mois
#renewal #agriculture #aboriginal #copyright #environment #languesofficielles #health #internationaltrade #multicultural #royal #science #scitech #tourism #VET
Here is a link to John Lennon’s song, Gimme Some Truth: http://youtu.be/aDDJeM5R4PM Knowing Harper enjoys the Beatles, Liberal MP extraordinaire Judy Sgro quoted this Lennon song…[En afficher davantage] -
Audrey Grenier-Williams posted an update posté il y a 1 année 2 mois
#agriculture, We need to be helping our local farmers. To me,Agriculture is one of the most important resources that we have! We must create #policy that helps with funding and some form of tax break for all farmers. Also I think we should incourage young people to go into the field so we can keep Canada ”local” instead of buying outside the country.
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I agree with this however, LPC is about profits which is not right. Should go Canadian People first, Planet, Jobs.
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Eric MacEachern posted an update posté il y a 1 année 3 mois
#agriculture:
The Liberal Party must take a stand against GMO food & insist on labaling as a bare minimuyum, IMO.
I have read that now that ‘Monsanto’ is appling to up the stakes with their ‘Round up’ ready strains of produce & have applied to allow ’24D’ in their arsenal in the USA.
24D is a componet in Agent Orange.
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Zachary Mullin posted an update posté il y a 1 année 3 mois
#agriculture I feel perhaps the federal government should provide support to Stars in Alberta and Saskatchewan. They save the lives of a lot of farmers. Also, discussions on the eradication of norway rats and controls on asian pine beetles would be wise.
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Timothy McPhail posted an update posté il y a 1 année 5 mois
Given that a sustainable and secure food policy is a top rated Priority Resolution, that the family farm needs to be supported, and that the CFIA under the current Government is wiping out heritage breeds, thus undermining the depth of genetics in farm stock in Canada, I would ask that my fellow pro-rural Liberal members and MPs rally around…[En afficher davantage]
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Peter Pertschy posted an update posté il y a 1 année 5 mois
Roy, if you really think that the removal of the quota system is a good idea, you should think twice, without dairy quota canada would only have a few farms which are built like in the U.S,
Just look at the E.U, farmers dump milk sometimes because its not even worth shipping.
As well, removal of quota wouldn’t mean you would…[En afficher davantage]
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This is an excellent article:
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If the removal of quota were accompanied by the removal of excessively high tarriffs on dairy products, companies like Saputo would have no choice but to lower prices, otherwise wholesalers would just buy cheaper milk from the US. Other dairy products could be bought from as far away as New Zealand more cheaply.
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New Zeland did away with it and their farmers are apparently doing well…
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Roy Derrick posted an update posté il y a 1 année 6 mois
#economy #policy #agriculture #renewal
I was disappointed (albeit not particularly surprised) to see today’s news release from the Leader’s Office featuring Frank Valeriote and Wayne Easter supporting supply management, thereby once again putting the interests of a small number of dairy and poultry farmers against the interests of 34 million…[En afficher davantage]
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Be careful what you wish for. Supply management is a tool to keep highs and lows out of the market place. You are talking about “oil price” swings by eliminating it.
The highs and lows kicks out the little guy, which is happening out west with the Wheat Board. Give it 20 years and “big business” will own it all. Why do you think Mr. Harper is…[En afficher davantage]-
Hi, Rick.
Actually, it’s not a matter of what I wish for; it’s a matter of equity for all Canadians. It’s not equitable for all Canadian consumers to pay vastly inflated prices to support (at most) 20,000 dairy farmers.
We all know what this is really about. It’s about political pandering to the rural vote in Quebec and Ontario.
The size of…[En afficher davantage]
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So we agree to disagree, you want the mother of three to pay $2.00 a litre today and $3.00 a litre tomorrow, then …
while the milk industry slowly falls into 2 big corporations hands, where they control the quality.
There is a resaon I grow my own food, I guess, I better add a cow and chickens to the list.
Big business doesn’t do it better,…[En afficher davantage]-
Hi, Rick.
I see you think that Canada suffers from being in an international market for oil. I dare say that’s not what most western Liberals think.
Canada is a trading nation. Exports account for about 30% of our GDP. Freer trade benefits the Canadian economy. We don’t do ourselves any favours – either as a country or a Party – by clinging…[En afficher davantage]
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Mr Derrick, we have to get used to this. We will have big issues on the national stage that the party and the leader focuses on in the mainstream and then side issues like this that don’t have broad-based support but are important to people. We need to make sure we are strong on the big and the small issues. We message individually to small…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi, Tim.
I’m amused by your presumption that you know more about politics, communications and public policy formulation than I do. However, if giving lectures on these topics makes you happy, knock yourself out.
You are talking about tactics. I’m talking about strategy. If ever we had a chance to have a ‘re-think’ about how we approach public…[En afficher davantage]
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Roy, thanks for the response. I assume you were talking to me (Ray). I appreciate that you are passionate about policy and process both of those things are fundamental to the operations of a political party. We must have a clearly defined process for developing and implementing policy, feeding the results back into the membership.
Vision and…[En afficher davantage]
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Thanks for your thoughtful and considered response, Ray. Sorry to have misnamed you in a previous post.
Yes, I am interested in policy formation, strategic communications and bottom-up renewal of the Party. I was using the supply management issue to highlight what I think is about to become a missed opportunity for the Party.
As others have…[En afficher davantage]
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Before dumping supply management, which is neither good or bad you would have to make sure that other countrys droped their subsidies to their farmers. This applies to all agricurtural trade, the USA and the EU dump hundreds of billions of dollars into farming at various levels. You get them to stop doing that, then you may have an argument to…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi, Richard.
Thanks for your comments on the supply management issue.
I see that we aren’t totally in disagreement. We agree that the matter can be complex. In fact, this is one of the reasons I believe we should begin to address the issue now. Dairy farmers will, almost certainly, require some form of assistance during a transition period…[En afficher davantage]
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Tania Mysak posted an update posté il y a 1 année 7 mois
#agriculture #policy I’m posting this here because I’m not really sure where else to post it, but can somebody please explain to me the Liberal position on the CWB? I get the issue of the plebiscite and the requirements of the Act for a democratic process, but outside of these process issues, is our position not just a “populist” support of…[En afficher davantage]
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I can tell you the loss of a body who’s sole purpose was to control prices and stifle competition is just a plain ole baaad thing no matter what party you are in. Farmers don’t want the wheat board buddy without it they can set their own prices. Have you been listening to wheat board propaganda ?
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Weather the WBC is good or bad is not the issues. The issues is how Steven Harper is rolling over the rights of a legitimate organization.
If the farmers don’t want the WBC, than hold a vote, as the rules state.
Other wise, you don’t care about democracy and what’s the next step. No elections at all for anyone!
Canada Post, Air Canada, WBC. All…[En afficher davantage]-
Rick,I say bring it to a vote and be done with it. It’s up to the farmers not Harper.
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My wife and I were discussing this over dinner. We concluded a couple of things: 1) farmers during boom times would probably get better prices on their own but worse prices during bust times, and 2) with world wide food shortages predicted, price control on wheat is as much about protecting Canadians from the price spike when the Chinese start…[En afficher davantage]
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Sang,
The statement that farmers don’t want the wheat board sounds a lot like something Stephen Harper would say. I live in Southern Alberta and I know that there is no consensus amongst farmers on this issue. I don’t think I have seen an issue divide the agriculture comunity this much since the crow rate.
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Hi Tania,
The Liberal Party’s position is simply this: we respect and support Western Canadian grain farmers’ right to self-determination when it comes to the Canadian Wheat Board.
The elimination of the single-desk will have significant financial impacts for Western Canadian grain farmers, as well as for the economies of countless small, rural…[En afficher davantage]-
Thanks Andre et al,
From my further reading, I appreciate there are divided opinions on this, even among farmers, and there isn’t expert consensus on a ”best” answer. In that light, the party’s approach seems a reasonable one, but not consistently or clearly translated in the media (shocking I know ;-))
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Patrick Hamilton posted an update posté il y a 1 année 6 mois
#agriculture Here’s an article that is food for thought(no pun intended)http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Canada%2Bfailing%2Bnurture%2Bfarm%2Bpotential/5656104/story.html
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margo metcalfe posted an update posté il y a 1 année 7 mois
#agriculture How can we level the playing field between the US and Canadian apple grower since the US has lower labour costs, lower land costs, lower spray costs, lower packing costs and is also subsidized. How do Canadians ensure that there is a Canadian farmer to grow food? Saving the land does not save the farmer. “
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Apple season is here but if you go to any of the major grocery chains they will be selling apples from the U.S. They spend days on a truck and are still cheaper than the apples that grow 50 miles away from us.
I cannot believe the U.S. government is not subsidizing the apple growers so they can sell at such a reduced rate.
I always go to a…[En afficher davantage]
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I think that there are practical steps for us to take on agricultural issues. The main role for government is helping producers to meet niche markets, etc.
(1) Have CFIA and Health Canada collaborate more intensively. “USDA Organic” is a well-respected designation given to organic foods from the US. Yet, if Canada has one, it is not…[En afficher davantage]
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I believe the Liberal Party should have a policy of encouraging organic production(which lowers costs by avoiding petrochemical herbicide and pesticide use) and if done properly, does not necessarily mean reduced yields. As well, we should have a national program that encourages people to “buy Canadian” when it comes to produce, and encourage…[En afficher davantage]
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Patrick Hamilton posted an update posté il y a 1 année 7 mois
#agriculture I found this article an interesting read….it just goes to show that nothing is fail safe…..esp when dealing with mother nature….http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/07/technology-superweeds-roundup-ready.html
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Patrick Hamilton posted an update posté il y a 1 année 7 mois
#agriculture I recently read this article in the latest issue of Walrus magazine, and was very disturbed by what I read. If the present trends of family farm loss continue, I worry for the future of Canada’s food security. Food for thought as we examine what future Liberal policy will be in supporting the Canadian family farm.…[En afficher davantage]
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Good article. If you’re interested, you should perhaps read The War in the Country by Thomas Pawlick, published a couple of years ago. It offers a lot of insight into the decline of the family farm, too – and what’s replacing it in the food chain.
My own family has a long history of dryland farming in southern Alberta, going back over a…[En afficher davantage]
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Mr Courtman: Thank you for the link….I will try and have a read. I find it very sad that your family might be ending farming after so many generations.
It upsets me to think that our food production may be turned completely over to transnational agribusiness…..where maximum production means everything, and environmental concerns are…[En afficher davantage]
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Wayne Easter posted an update posté il y a 1 année 8 mois
Gary,
Bell Media and other Conservative media might wish to think that — but that is certainly not the case.
As our leader said in caucus, we are in this fight to form the next government.
Political activism is welcome.
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Thanks for your response @Wayne-Easter, the discussion is ongoing at http://www.facebook.com/CTVPowerPlay:
Jennifer Ross – Didn’t Power Play used to have a bunch of people on its “political panel” (why you called it a panel). Why only one party represented on the wheat board issue, for example? How about having a Liberal on?
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Is media a tool used to sway public opinion or is it in the business of sensationalism designed to bolster its bottom line or to endlessly distract the public away from things that should be of greater concern but are not.I fear it has become a tool to keep people away from other people.Television is consuming too many hours of peoples lives that…[En afficher davantage]
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Gotta post to this!! Media is the biggest bane of my existence. I know from my wife in the Civil Service exactly what this government has been quietly doing behind the scenes, and the media is cheering them on. The newspapers seem to be in the business of just parroting the conservative talking points.
If I didn’t know better, the media is…[En afficher davantage]
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Frank Valeriote posted an update posté il y a 1 année 8 mois
To my friends in the Liberal community – extremely busy time for #agriculture with the Conservative government’s unprecedented attack on the Wheat Board and with the #auto industry being such an important part of our economy. Looking forward to discussing these issues and others in this new forum!
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Hello Frank, good to see you posting here.
Why is the Wheat Board such a wonderful idea? It produces artificial prices for grain due to its being a monopsony, which ultimately causes either Canadian farmers (if the price is lower than merited) or Canadian families (if it’s higher) to lose out. It’s the only remaining entity of its kind in the…[En afficher davantage]
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for taking the time to pose your questions. The Canadian Wheat Board is uniquely positioned to market different qualities of grain at different times of the year to different markets (that is 70 countries and over 100 buyers across the world). It knows and serves the farmers needs collectively as their individual sales and…[En afficher davantage] -
Hi Andrew I just wanted to give you a link to an article showing a recent vote by farmers on what they would like to see happen to the wheat board.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/09/12/sk-wheat-board-vote-1108.html
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Good to see you on here. I expect to hear more from you as #agriculture and the #auto industry are very important to us here in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex #LKM
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Great to see you here Frank!
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