Many Canadian Ranchers Now Just 'hired Hands'

Having lived and worked in this country for 50 years as an employee and employer in manufacturing and a rancher, I can say without qualifications that it is not only Canadian ranchers who are now hired hands, but, thanks to fraudulent "free trade", the whole country has become the branch economy of a few foreign controlled multinational gangster companies, aided and abetted by governments, economists, universities and the media. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Yep! That`s the goal. The rich corporate fascists want to make us all slaves! And we think we`re free....

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Dave Ruston

Good article, sadly many farmers I speak with, are so proud that they don't want to admit they are sinking. In Alberta, we are celebrating many farm families' '100 years of farming', and you can sense the fear that in another 25 years the family farm will no longer exist. Many farmers today have no aspirations for handing down the farm, even though they know what they are losing, they also know that their children won't be able to make a living and raise a family on that farm.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

<u><i>"Canadian ranchers survived the mad cow crisis by becoming farm teams for the American beef interests -- a move that's not likely to change now that the border is open."</i></u> <p>This was after all, the purpose of the BSE scare in the first place. As was (is) the Softwood Lumber dispute, the grain exports dispute, the cod moratorium, etc. </p> All of this is happening with the tacit blessing of the Federal Libs, which happen to loathe small business, if only because collecting political donations from thousands of small business owners is so much more tedious than from One Big Trans-National. This has in fact been Liberal practice for decades, the elimination of small business, whose practitioners tend to be independant-minded. <p>People think that so-called "socialist" parties such as the NDP are the threat to free societies. But they are mistaken - it has been the Liberal Party in Canada, at least since the days of Mackenzie King, and the Conservative Party since the days of Mulroney. These latter two would see us enter into some sort of continuation (or replacement) of the 3rd Reich.</p> And in this, they are only following in the footsteps of their common mentor, the USA. If no one has noticed, the practice of squeezing out the little guy is alive, well and thriving under the current administration, epecially in the agri-business sector, the massive subsidies for which go mainly into the pockets the "biggies". <p>Seig Heil! OBTN Forever!</p><p>---<br>RickW

Does anybody know a good informative site on farming issues? It's one thing to shout platitudes about what is happening, but what is REALLY happening? I mean what is SPECIFICALLY happening. Have there been any books on the BSE issue? Any good websites on the exact control of the US over slaughterhouses etc.?