...they multi-task for all to see.
Sucking...
we need our provincial and municipal governments to work together to identify ways to remove redundant regulatory hurdles.
and in the very next sentence, Blowing
we need municipalities to embrace the spirit of the new Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) when it comes to on-farm value-added industries and secondary industries related to agriculture.
For those who are not familiar with the PPS, from the perspectives of development and land-use, it is without doubt the most restrictive, confiscatory piece of legislation imaginable. "Embrace the spirit" indeed.
If this dickhead really means what he's saying, he should be dragged outside and have the ***t kicked out of him. He wants Wynnebag to "embrace the spirit" of a law that permits government to stop me from making a living on my land because of aquifer protection? He wants this hag to "embrace the spirit" of a law that says the pit-run gravel on my farm is a public resource - that it's not mine? He thinks this crooked McGuinty hemorrhoid should "embrace the spirit" of a law that encourages assholes in municipal government to pass by-laws that restrict my ability to cut firewood and clear land. And this turd supposedly speaks for farmers???
ReplyDeleteWhen us grape growers were being forced out of business by the government and the big wineries the CFFO, NFU and OFA were all the same, nothing but two-faced government lapdogs. But the CFFO are clearly trying to elbow the others out of the way for a long deep sniff.
DeleteChristamighty! My farm property tax is up $1000 (6%) over last year and is now roughly 450% of the mid-90's. The twin headwinds of tax escalation and regulatory interference are reducing my farm's productivity and economic potential, and these pricks expect me to help "grow the industry"? The words I have for these self-proclaimed "farm representatives" would get me banned from the blog.
ReplyDeleteAwwww, c'mon now. Don't be to hard on poor little Nathan. It's obvious that no one reads his stuff. Matter of fact, it's obvious that not many people in rural Ontario read, understand, or care very much. If they did, we wouldn't have the PPS.
ReplyDeleteI have driven down some greasy, snotty, slippery and roads in my life, but man oh man that article out does them all for sliminess. After reading that pukey article I'll never call the Alberta Federation of Agriculture and the Alberta Beef Producers a bunch of potlickers again.
ReplyDeleteHe is like a guy with a bad wig ever body knows hes pretending
ReplyDeleteThe moment that farm organizations got "stable funding" be it from government mandated check-off fees or manditory enrollment fees every last one of them ceased to represent the farm/rural base and became the vehicle by which to carry forth government policy.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to make these organizations accountable to their base is choke off the money....and that isn't going to happen as long as fees are government mandated.
Always always follow the money....