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PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:36 pm
 


Title: Ottawa closes sale of Canadian Wheat Board, name changes to G3 Canada Ltd. | CTV Regina News
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Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2015-07-31 11:31:19
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Oh goody. Now we can pay three times more for our own grain too.
Brilliant move...


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The federal government announced in April that G3, which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia, would buy 50.1 per cent of the board for $250 million.


Just one of enough reasons I won't be voting for the Tories in the upcoming election. They put tens of thousands of Canadians out of work with their deliberate oil glut. The response of the Harper government, after all that hemming, hawing, and harrumphing about being tough on foreign ownership when the Chinese bought Nexen a couple of years back? Hey, let's sell what's left of a crown corporation to them! Neato! FUCK. YOU. :evil:


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Thanos Thanos:
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The federal government announced in April that G3, which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia, would buy 50.1 per cent of the board for $250 million.


Just one of enough reasons I won't be voting for the Tories in the upcoming election. They put tens of thousands of Canadians out of work with their deliberate oil glut. The response of the Harper government, after all that hemming, hawing, and harrumphing about being tough on foreign ownership when the Chinese bought Nexen a couple of years back? Hey, let's sell what's left of a crown corporation to them! Neato! FUCK. YOU. :evil:


Poor you. Get over it.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:48 am
 


85000 new unemployed in Alberta over the last few months thanks to the Saudis. While I'm sure this makes you very happy, in that puzzling way that bad times in the West make people in the East cheer, on this end of the bat it fucking sucks.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:03 am
 


It's not all the Saudis. The US is about to allow oil exports because they are swimming in it. That harms Canada much more than the Saudis, since in our foresight we built everything to depend on sales to the US, except of course for the oil we import for Eastern Canada. How successive governments could have allowed that situation to develop is beyond me. Well, just the usual sellout to the corporations, instead of doing what's best for Canada. Trudeau may have had a point after all.

Other regions are also swimming in oil. And that's what we get for putting everything into the Alberta basket. Alberta gets it worst of all, of course. Nothing like a little socialism that would have built a pipe back east and a refinery or two so we're not having to ship it to the US for refining and then buy it back. An example of how capitalism doesn't always make the most sensible moves for what's good for a country, just good for the investors. Like China, for instance.

Oh, and Iran is about to come on stream. You can blame the US for that as well. Well, all the big powers actually.


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Thanos Thanos:
85000 new unemployed in Alberta over the last few months thanks to the Saudis. While I'm sure this makes you very happy, in that puzzling way that bad times in the West make people in the East cheer, on this end of the bat it fucking sucks.


It doesn't make me happy. It annoys the fuck out of me that for months on end you bitch and moan about something that won't change.


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Yeah, easy for you to say with your union-protected never-get-laid-off cop job. Another safe-for-life civil servant looking down on everyone else who get's fucked over.


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Thanos Thanos:
85000 new unemployed in Alberta over the last few months thanks to the Saudis. While I'm sure this makes you very happy, in that puzzling way that bad times in the West make people in the East cheer, on this end of the bat it fucking sucks.


I'll let you in on an apparent secret, us native Albertans may have empathy for people losing their jobs in the patch, but the single moms and the people that work 2-3 jobs a week to make ends meet because the energy sector creates such a high cost of living, don't really give a fuck.


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Thanos Thanos:
Yeah, easy for you to say with your union-protected never-get-laid-off cop job. Another safe-for-life civil servant looking down on everyone else who get's fucked over.


Who are you talking to?


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:02 pm
 


Thanos Thanos:
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The federal government announced in April that G3, which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia, would buy 50.1 per cent of the board for $250 million.


Just one of enough reasons I won't be voting for the Tories in the upcoming election. They put tens of thousands of Canadians out of work with their deliberate oil glut. The response of the Harper government, after all that hemming, hawing, and harrumphing about being tough on foreign ownership when the Chinese bought Nexen a couple of years back? Hey, let's sell what's left of a crown corporation to them! Neato! FUCK. YOU. :evil:


Wow I apologize for having thought you to be a total non thinking specimen of Harper's Propaganda machine.

Now I want to buy you beer.... I can't do that so i will ease off the constant salvo anti harperisms....
I wish of yours I ignored.

Farmers of any kind get screwed all the time.

My friend grew up on a dairy farm in Ontario which his dad bought in the early 30's.

The screw over from the Dairy board and the Banks were enough to make one off themselves.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:41 am
 


Don't get too far ahead of yourself, chuckles. I'm still none too fond of you putting your rants into threads where they don't belong. I don't hate Harper. I don't think he's evil or diabolical. I merely stand where I'm at now because I'm mad at his doing nothing during this recession. He tossed out stimulus cash everywhere else during the last one, he can damn well do something to keep the oilpatch afloat, especially after all it's done for the national economy over the last decade. :evil:


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Thanos Thanos:
Don't get too far ahead of yourself, chuckles. I'm still none too fond of you putting your rants into threads where they don't belong. I don't hate Harper. I don't think he's evil or diabolical. I merely stand where I'm at now because I'm mad at his doing nothing during this recession. He tossed out stimulus cash everywhere else during the last one, he can damn well do something to keep the oilpatch afloat, especially after all it's done for the national economy over the last decade. :evil:


Well listen up Grumpy, those actually are facts and not rants.

Harper is an amateur , control freak where his best eventually abandon him. Factoid Grumpy.

Now the fun part of your post...*snickers*

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mad at his doing nothing during this recession. He tossed out stimulus cash everywhere else during the last one,


The last one never fully found recovery. Oh we eeked out enough GDP to say we were no longer in recession , but it never really recovered.

I don;t think you fully understand economics at all. Quantitive easing was a theory uit into practice for the banks not to fail.

you need to know what money is and how it is manufactured. It's completely based on bank debt and the central banks inform governments how much to print. Quantitive easing was such a measure.
It has nothing to do with Harper ineptness. You need a Liberal government or a past actual conservative government in order to place monies in certain people's grasp in order to flush a recession. Harper does not have those in his pockets and real conservatives have abandoned this freak long ago.


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he can damn well do something to keep the oilpatch afloat, especially after all it's done for the national economy over the last decade


I'm not being sarcastic here, but how old are you. Do you have any idea what actually happened to the oil industry.
OPEC showed it's control and played it, something harper should have been aware of could happen.

there's more but i don;t think you can digest this anyway grumpy.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:38 am
 


Hey, earth to forum: it’s about the wheat board sale, not the price of oil or multinational corporate strategies of oil.
Bigger picture: Canada has to stop giving away our country’s national assets. This includes ‘controlling interests’ in these sectors. We can’t stop the more private ‘King Horton’ events, but we can certainly stop giving away national strategic resources in food, water, lumber, mining and energy.
This is critical. As a democracy we can do this peacefully by refusing to elect majority governments or even voting out unwanted regimes entirely. Actually, if we had a triple ‘E’ senate: Equal, Elected, Effective, I would venture to say this probably would not have happened. For the life of me I don’t understand why Canadians haven’t seen how important a triple ‘E’ senate is and insisted on its creation, especially in our parliamentary system, which has no functional counterbalance in a majority government context. At least a republic system would have a fighting chance at critical debate. As it is right now, we are completely at the mercy of a benevolent dictator.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:46 am
 


We don't need a triple E senate, we need zero senate. There's no reason to believe that this or any other policy would be different if there was an elected senate. Heck, there's no reason to believe that it wouldn't be the same Conservative party elected to dominate both houses.

The US is an example of why an elected senate won't work: All an elected senate would do is make it impossible to know who is responsible for what. At least in the current situation I know that Harper and Harper alone is responsible for the policy coming out of Ottawa. He can't point to the Senate and say "don't look at me, I wrote a really good law but the senate altered it beyond recognition!" Or "yes it's a bad law but it's the only version of this law I could get past the liberals in the senate and it's better than nothing!"

Bicameral government with separately elected chambers are wholly unaccountable to the public. Every single piece of policy they produce is a compromise between multiple actors, most often made in backroom deals and with no one person being held responsible for the final outcome.


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