Global Free Trade Back On Track

This is an excellent development. Obscene amounts of money are spent supporting old style farming in Western countries - money that could be used much more wisely than farm welfare. Farmers in developing countries will finally be able to get a fair price for their products, as it is now there's no way they can compete with Western subsidies. This is the best way to promote stability and development in the 'third world' and the only real way of helping them.

Who do you work for troll? Which big agricultural corporate welfare bum pays your salary? Do you really think that the USA is going to follow WTO rules any more than they have with Canada? What needs to be done is to scrap all the trade treaties. Then start over out in the open with an entirely transparent set of open to the public trade treaty negotiations, IMO.

"Farm welfare"? That reminds me of comments by one of the Alliance, now Conservative MPs, who called pensions "welfare for the aged". Can't the sys admin put up a forcefield around this site to repel these idiots?

I'm actually a little suspicious about this "great breakthrough" at the WTO. I think its all a PR stunt to save face. Strangely, there didn't seem to be any euphoria or real excitement surrounding this deal. I don't think anyone actually believes its going to happen. America give up its billion dollar subsidies to ag? No way. Too late--the Presidential election has already begun. The ag. states will be the battleground.

As for Canada, like the idiots we are, we'll probably go ahead and unilatreally disarm ourselves in this sector, dismantling the Wheat Board and supply management, like we did in the 90s giving up the Crow Rate and other programs that made it possible for non-corporations to farm in this country. This really makes us seem weak and sycophantic before the larger countries.

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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

No,no, no, it ain`t about giving 3rd world farmers more money and power! It`s about corporations cementing their serf-like hold on all small farmers around the world!

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Dave Ruston

"Welfare for the aged ??"

I must have missed that one. Which mouthpiece uttered that crap ?


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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

The actual quote was "Old age security is welfare for the aged." It was said by Paul Forseth then a Reform MP in the Vancouver Sun, October 6, 1993. He was re-elected as Conservative MP this June in New Westminster-Coquitlam. <p> <a href="http://www.intheirownwords.ca/tories.php">Click here</a> to check out this quote and others by those univited guests of Canadian culture, the Conservative Party of Canada. </p><p>---<br>If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

That was an interesting bunch of quotes.

Who voted for these people ??

Not me !


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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

Who voted for these people?

Fewer than expected. And it will be even less next time 'round.

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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

Yes, yes, yes, you said it for sure.