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Ray Danyluk must love being an MLA for the good folks of Lac-La-Biche St Paul.Indeed he must be very committed to his constituents and very committed to living among them.
We know that is true because nothing else would explain his irrational attachment to the jinxed land that he farms.
You see, over the last ten years Ray Danyluk’s small mixed farming operation in Elk Point has had AFSC claims totalling $1.36M – that’s not too much less than he got for being an MLA and cabinet minister.
He has had worse luck than his neighbours many of whom have more land and larger operations.
Year after year, since Ray was elected in 2001, bad luck strikes and Ray gets AFSC payouts to cover his catastrophic losses.
Indeed, his best luck years have resulted in payouts that were twice his insurance premiums, in his worst year he received 13 times what he paid in premiums.
In the last 4 years he has received over $700K in payouts on premiums of $101K.
The voters of Lac La Biche need to do Ray a favour and defeat him.
That way he won’t feel compelled to hold onto this accursed land. He might be able to sell it and move to farmland that won’t be so prone to flooding, hail, and drought.
I hope he`s laying low today, what with it being Friday the 13th.
Seems Ray has discovered the ULTIMATE "cash" crop.
Some people grow canola.
Others grow wheat.
Ray grows claims.
AFSC is what exactly?
AFSC is a provincial crown corporation that sells crop insurance to farmers.
this is a game played out in saskatchewan also, crooked farmers.
Geez...no wonder all of Ontario's commie croppers been lickin' Uncle Dildo's arse for 'risk mamagemnt plans'.
Reminds me of a neighbour we had, who loaded up on hail insurance.
Every morning he would step outside, look up, and say a prayer...
"Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace. HAIL, MARY!"
Curious minds want to know: Has Ray's political adventures helped keep his premiums low and his payouts high?
And why hasn't AFSC not done their own investigation/audit? This is shining the light not just on the MLA, but also on yet another poorly run government organization.
I guess when it's other people's money it doesn't matter?
Living only twenty minutes away from St. Paul / Elk Point we thought we were just damned lucky to have missed all those storm cells that circled around us the past couple of years. Now I know the good Lord had a specific plan!!
308.com has hike trailing the wildrose candidate by ten points.
What?....and he's not a Liberal??
After the province bailing out the insurance companies from the Slave Lake fire this does not surprise me. The province put everyone in hotels for free who were evacuated and gave them a weekly cheque to boot.
I could see the province helping people who had no insurance but the majority had insurance policies and every policy I have seen covered temporary housing. It was total Bull.
DiffBob
Yes, indeed, Danyluk is a liberal. It's just that, here in Alberta, we now call them Progressive Conservatives.
$1,360,000 from the public teat in 10 years. Peanuts! That's what Kowalski got for severance. Danyluk is a mere amateur.
If Edmonton is an indication the north loves their subsidy culture. The Agri-welfare culture is well established there - so many clains from hail and rain damage - dryland farmers in the south could only wish they had these disasters to cope with.
So, according to this information does this mean all the other Farmers in the area can resubmit, or appeal their claims ?
Would you expand on that statement,"scar", for those of us not from Alberta,and not knowing who "Kowalski" is?
Thanks.
Sounds like Mr.Danyluk may have some explaining to do,but I suppose it was all legal and above board.
Why is there a crown corp. selling crop insurance? Isn't that better left to private industry?
Guess it pays to be connected eh?
In other Friday the 13th news, its a coolish but bright sun shining day here in deepest Ontariostan, and the motorcycles are converging in vast numbers on Port Dover for the traditional Friday the Thirteenth p1ss-up.
Its a good day to jump on the iron horse and set fire to the roadway anywhere but Haldimand County, because every available OPP cop in the province from here to Kenora is in Dover today watching 100,000 bikers drink beer and drive around the main drag really -really- slowly. We're talking paddling with both feet here, unless you're a trials rider and can balance stationary for minutes at a time.
Cost to the province for overtime? Probably several million bucks. Potential for rioting? 1,000 actual bikers surrounded by 99,000 middle aged lawyers with their wives, riot potential zero. Might see the odd burnout or wheelie.
I never go, I can't stand lawyers. ~:D
Forwarded the note to St. Paul Journal.
I liked Ray but WTF??
Has he not heard of a phenomena called "optics"?
Fire Them ALL.
Why is there a crown corp. selling crop insurance? Isn't that better left to private industry?
Because nobody would buy it. Premiums would be too high. It's a welfare scheme, like medicare...
What a freakin crook. I think an audit should be in order after he loses the election. Or even if he wins. (yeah right).
And why hasn't AFSC not done their own investigation/audit? This is shining the light not just on the MLA, but also on yet another poorly run government organization.
I guess when it's other people's money it doesn't matter?
Posted by: theredsuit at April 13, 2012 9:12 AM
Following the CWB template: Motivation: Kickback$
"What?....and he's not a Liberal??"
Yes he is that's why we are getting rid of them.
Every institution of center of power becomes infected with Liberals over time. They infiltrate, that is why you need to periodically flush them out before they solidify their power and it needs to get bloody.
A politician who feathers his own bed ? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell ya.
Caught with his hand in the till. Silly Politician.
Caught with his hand in the till. Silly Politician.
Hardly. Just a run of the mill rural conservative welfare bum. That's how they play it down on the farm. They all got their hand in the cookie jar.
phil >
"Just a run of the mill rural conservative welfare bum"
Where is the NDP voter base again?
Where is the NDP voter base again?
I give up. Where?
pill said: "Where is the NDP voter base again?
I give up. Where?"
With -both- hands in the cookie jar. To the shoulder.
The long deceased Ukrainian relatives of Danyluk must be rolling in their graves. Their fleeing Stalinist oppression, travelling across an ocean to break the land by hand and carve out a living on the Canadian prarie has now been cheapend by this gladhanding corrupt spawn, a modern-day politician. He has tarnished the legacy of these hard working forefathers by taking the easy way out. Shame on him.
phil >
Rural.
The NDP are the welfare party of Canada.
Your weird hatred for farmers must have come from growing up on a Hutterite colony or something, but it's misplaced, you should be more homophobic or something akin. Although there are all sorts of strange fetishes and phobia’s out there, who’s the famous actress that’s afraid of butterflies? I truly forget, I think its Nicole Kidman.
Backphil is afraid of dirt...go figure.
Hey phil >
Why not join in the conversation for a change, instead of drive-by smears on farmers. Out of mild curiosity who would you vote for in the upcoming Alberta election, and why?
phil >
Rural.
Oh my, are you really that ignorant, 99? Silly question. You are, after all, a Conservative.
has now been cheapend by this gladhanding corrupt spawn, a modern-day politician.
He happens to be but a modern day farmer. There's over $5 billion a year in tax dollars going down the ag welfare crapper that's testament to that fact.
phil >
“Ignorant”? What little hellhole do you live in to want so much continuous, hope, change, regulation, and restrictions on personal freedom?
I live in Alberta, prosperous and free. Have travelled the world extensively to see firsthand what it’s like, and live a very comfortable lifestyle here. We are keeping it that way, and you’re ideologies have no place in it, so it’s sour grapes for you and we don’t care.
Who’s ignorant?
"Kowalski" is presumably the politician described in the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kowalski
The article is anodyne. "Scar"'s comments are of those Alberta in-things no doubt.
Who’s ignorant?
You are if you think rural Alberta, rural Saskatchewan or rural Canada votes anything but the right wing option.
Did I say rural Alberta? No I don't think so, I clearly stated “NDP Voter Base” resides in rural Canada.
Regardless of your reading comprehension, Saskatchewan has only started to economically recover from its NDP socialist heritage with some Conservative leadership, and the rest of the NDP “voter base” indeed resides in “Rural Canada”.
Are you seriously suggesting the NDP voter base is in major Canadian cities? LOL
You can lie and spin truths, all you wish, it won’t change the facts. We win you lose, and you’re not invited to the party. The left is finally losing ground across the western world, there is an awakening happening, and we don’t care if you see it or not.
Rural Canada in general votes conservative and rural western Canada, solidly conservative, as any electoral map will demonstrate. As the majority of free loading farmers reside in western Canada, designating them rural conservative welfare bums is accurate. The NDP has no base in farm country. To suggest otherwise is ignorant. That's not a put down. It's a only a description of reality. It's only a put down if you choose to wallow in that ignorance, as most conservatives do, deliberately wallowing in ignorance like farmers wallowing in the welfare trough.
KNIGHT 99:
Read Kate's post. Peruse the linked-to PDF. What's
the topic?
STOP. FEEDING. THE. TROLL.
EBD >
"...whats the topic"?
Farmers and politics?
No worries I'm out of this one.
Nice fearing mongering tactics Wildrose. Shayne, you up to this one too and playing innocent again? Is anyone actually farmers on here at all? Anyone want to pipe up and talk about what the premiums are that are paid on this type of insurance? Going to ignore the area of land these coverages account for? Don't worry about forwarding it to the local paper their coverage is biased and junk....wouldn't put it past them to have written this themselves. Shame on you all. Your comments are based on pure ignorance and negativity....I have seen nothing else come out of the Wildrose so guess I shouldn't expect anything different. So disgusted in you all.
Nice fearing mongering tactics Wildrose. Shayne, you up to this one too and playing innocent again? Is anyone actually farmers on here at all? Anyone want to pipe up and talk about what the premiums are that are paid on this type of insurance? Going to ignore the area of land these coverages account for? Don't worry about forwarding it to the local paper their coverage is biased and junk....wouldn't put it past them to have written this themselves. Shame on you all. Your comments are based on pure ignorance and negativity....I have seen nothing else come out of the Wildrose so guess I shouldn't expect anything different. So disgusted in you all.
Hello??? Anyone that has paid attention to Alberta politics and corruption over the past few decades knows that the ag, bio-energy, crop insurance, disaster assistance and $100 million RADF ensure that the Alberta PCs maintain thier rural support, which makes a joke of the one-person, one-vote principle of democracy. That is because the PCs have control over every single thing that happens in Alberta because of voters threatened, pigging out on or blind to the level of corruption this government has perfected. So perfect, in fact, that every body or individual that, is supposed to be independent, is in fact appointed or supported or threatened by the PCs.
Hi Eastern Paul, I would suggest calling Ray to get the truth on this. Shayne Saskiw has spent the last two years campaigning in the constituency, paid by the Wildrose party, and spreading all sorts of lies. He truly is a little weasel. I have heard nothing positive from him just more lies and negativity. Quite frankly we don't have it that bad in Alberta and have a lot to be proud of and grateful for. If the Wildrose gets in it will only be for four years, until people can sort through the lies that they have been fed and people get a chance to see their true colours. Seriously people all of this insurance information has always been public - why do you think you are being fed it now!?! Think for yourself and investigate your own truths....don't buy into this garbage. Shayne Saskiw...grow up! Run a campaign on your own ideas and merit. Talking to your high school classmates and university "pals" I was truly shocked with what they had to say about you......slimy, little weasel, arrogant, manipulator, were some of their terms of endearment. Not a good feeling when it comes back the other way eh!? Would think these people know you best. PS not surprised you have spread more lies and misinformation. Your lack of understanding of rural Alberta has spoken, or lack there of, in the forums. Sheesh what does your mother say about this behavior!?! You do live with her right?
"......slimy, little weasel, arrogant, manipulator, were some of their terms of endearment"
That's Minister Saskiw to you.
As for Danyluk's agrarian misfortunes, I expect his claims will be lower this year, what with his big transition allowance and all. Plus, he probably gets all the money left in his re-election war chest so generously contributed out of government grant money by the towns, schools, hospitals, etc. in his riding.
Just repeating truths for once....something Wildrose have no experience in.
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