Yoo Hoo .... Manitoba Business

And it goes into effect April 1 ...

Weird. I'm reading Atlas Shrugs right now... I didn't realize they were acting it out in Manitoba word for word.

The companies will not increase the price of their products...right...for this insane legislation....and your tax bill will be reduced because you all ready pay for your recycle.....anything to get more money to re-distribute wealth...more social programs for the people that do not like work...

Manitoba wasn't in bad shape when I left in 1966, but after old Duff left office,things seem to have gone down hill.

I heard that by 1980 more than half the people in the Province were paid directly or indirectly by the government,and friends assure me it's only gotten worse since.

Legislation like this Green Shift should really help bring that figure to about 90%.

They should find a new motto,"Manitoba,We never learn". More honest than "Spirited Energy"".

Interesting coincidence.My condo has a notice up that the city's "Recycling Gestapo" is offering "school credits" to volunteers willing to get involved in taking a training course that turns out "Recycling Monitors" to keep standards high in the high rise buildings where they live.

Presumably there is no requirement for "Recycling Monitors" at the recycling facilities themselves. As an example, glass bottle recycling was hyped for decades and the reality was it all went to landfill anyway except in very limited areas where hauling it to glass plants was not a total waste of money.

Have you ever even seen recycled material quoted in business news? Like how much for a tonne of spot market bailed paper fob your transport truck?

"Baled recycled aluminum beverage containers in 5 tonne lots led the market higher today as brokers anticipated blah blah blah.............."

This is a sure-fire way to lower Manitoba's "carbon footprint" and eliminate employment.

New logo coming for Saskatchewan's license plates: "Friendlier Saskatchewan". (For any of you folks who have never seen a Manitoba license plate, it says "Friendly Manitoba".)

Maybe we can get in the spirit of things and recycle the slogan "Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights." to Manitoba.

"Have you ever even seen recycled material quoted in business news?"

Aluminum, copper, brass, & stainless are exceptions. Unlike dead trees though, most metals are actually worth recycling. Many people would be especially surprised at the value of even a small amount of copper & brass if taken to private recyclers and brokers!

What a bunch of clowns. I'm glad I can say I haven't voted for the dippers since my delusional early 20's. Greg Selinger is going to be a complete trainwreck, if only the conservatives could get their act together.

You have to laugh at the cute little grean leaf above the green S, in that MMSM logo! Clever, eh?
And note the little moving banner at the top: Stewards must register by March 31, 2010.

Clearly, the inventor of this little interventionist masterpiece can have NO experience in business and therefore NO concept of the disruption this will cause -- the costs in time and money over and above the explicit fees.

And won't Any business that supplies, distributes or sells packaged products or printed paper like, um, cover nearly all retail businesses.
It's one thing to loot business, quite another to create a whole new regulatory-compliance infrastructure as added insult to the injury.

Truly, depressingly, wearisomely, de-moralizingly, progressively moronic.

How long before we must weigh our feces and pay by the pound for sewage services. It is coming to that.

There no bodily function to insignificant that a committee of determined leftists cannot find something about it to regulate and tax.

There's still talk about a similar program here in SK... Don't get too cocky.

Great for Saskatchewan and Alberta. Now the Manitoba Pulp and Paper business will head westward.

Business Friendly...NOT

My standard retort whenever some idiot tries to convince me to recycle is "if recycling is such a great economic idea, why isn't anyone paying me for my garbage?"

"How long before we must weigh our feces and pay by the pound for sewage services. It is coming to that."

I'm reminded of a line from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" (the BBC radio series). "When you go to the washroom, remember to get a receipt."

The frustrating part of this is that I sell product to a company who then sells it throughout Western Canada, including Manitoba.

I have been advised by said company I must register as a "steward". I could say bugger off, but then said company would likely delist me and not sell my products anywhere in Western Canada, so the reach of this extends far outside Manitoba.

Back to the Middle Ages in Manitoba - sales of Indulgences - I didn't know that your Dippers could read - and history no less!

I don't have a problem with recycling as such, however the bottom fell out of the recyclables market when the economy nose dived. Now household recyclables are worthless and rural ratepayers have to pay to have the stuff shipped to Winnipeg where it is ground up and stockpiled. Sounds like this is just one more green initiative of national socialism.

Yesterday's federal budget did not seem to address AGW, so I am not sure if they are quietly ignoring the fraud or what they are up to.

Manitoba appears to have bought into the fraud. However before Saskatchewan and Alberta residents get too cocky read about the carbon credit systems being set up.

http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23857&Itemid=424

"I have been advised by said company I must register as a "steward". I could say bugger off, but then said company would likely delist me and not sell my products anywhere in Western Canada, so the reach of this extends far outside Manitoba."

Ward, you must be a steward!..a mole into heart of green movement...You may get your own TV show "I was a Communist for SDA"

Seriously, the intent is really non-functional; its all Green PR (bull Shit)

BTW: The greens are on a phone campaign in Arizona I had to ask 2 of the suckers to give me their names so I could add them to "the" hit List....They hang up for some reason, not polite.

It appears that both Alberta and Saskatchewan governments have drank the koolaid.

http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23857&Itemid=424

The government of Manitoba is broke, now they have been reduced to taxing garbage.

A great idea! Other provinces will soon be looking at adopting similar models. Everyone must do their part to reduce their carbon footprint. I am forwarding this to all of the school districts in the province.

If Manitoba were a publically traded corporation I'd
be shorting their stock at this point.