57 Replies to “CBC: Focus On The Farmers!”

  1. Gerry Ritz spoke at the Rural Municipal convention in Regina last week and the applause for him was overwhelmingly louder than it was for the two questioners who tried to accuse him of doing something illegal.

  3. Call me a skeptic, but…
    They’re not farmers. 30 people all standing around dressed ‘like’ farmers, brand new jeans and ‘work’ shirts from a raid on a local Marks, I’d say. Like most stereo types, farmers don’t dress ‘like’ farmers unless they’re on the farm, in which case farm clothes don’t look that new, or clean.
    And really, 30 or so odd ‘farmers’ that have a say in the CWB (so… from the prairies) all flew down to protest???

  4. hahahaha… is that all a rent-a-protest they can call up? I guess that the “occupy” crowds really are making a difference, the usual gang of idiots aren’t available on a moments notice anymore.

  5. I would be surprised if this group collectively farmed much more than a section, or two at the high side.

  6. Damn Harper and Ritz, now we might have an outlet for our durum, what with some risk taking bugger building a pasta plant in Regina, we will be forced to take more for our durum wheat and be paid on delivery,, not for the next 18 months like we like it. Wait a minute, this could be a good thing, Ya think! I can not believe how stupid our so called media is, this classes as news, I’ve got a friend who used to have van parties with more packed in a 79 Chevy van, 23 one time. Here in Calgary the media was spouting all day about some poofters study on Albertas water being the worst in Canada. These morons just report anything as long as it might make Harper look bad, but IT AINT WORKING Jackasses.

  9. Right on Derek…my first thought too.
    The tape-over-mouth is convenient so they can’t be interviewed…not that CBC would ask any relevant questions.

  11. “Here in Calgary the media was spouting all day about some poofters study on Alberta water being the worst in Canada.”
    Worse than the Ontario rust belt? Worse than the Great Lakes. Alberta does have a tough environment department despite what is said. I used to know a enviro-cop. He was a total A-hole.
    The first clue is that the rivers, at least in the North are actually blue.

  12. Scar – well, Alberta doesn’t get that nice, tasty, healthy acid rain that was supposed to have killed off everyone in Ontario and Quebec by now. The natural pollutants that cause a blue colour must be even more harmful than we thought.

  14. I beg to differ Kate. No need at all for a wide angle lense for the second photo.
    You could take that one with a 50mm portrait lense and still be close enough to hear everything they said.

  15. Give the CBC a break. They probably had 30 people covering this event. They were so busy, like a set of booster cables at an Indian wedding.

  17. The CWB was a nice sinecure for liberal arses; The CBC sees the writing on the wall, all those liberal establishment sinecures being threatened /// oh the pain the fear….

  18. I’ve never been west of Hamilton, and am curious. What possible justification is there to keep this alive? And no, I don’t buy that “a majority of farmers want it” crap. If majority rules, then the recent election alone justifies ending it.
    Why can a western farmer go to jail for selling wheat, but an Ontario farmer faces no such penalty?
    Why can’t the majority of farmers who want the CWB form their own voluntary board?
    Calling all trolls! I am in dire need of your intelligence and cutting wit more than ever!

  20. Yeah that rentamob may not be a rentamob…it could the CWB/CWB staff itself….
    Derek
    “They’re not farmers. 30 people all standing around dressed ‘like’ farmers, brand new jeans and ‘work’ shirts from a raid on a local Marks, I’d say. Like most stereo types, farmers don’t dress ‘like’ farmers unless they’re on the farm, in which case farm clothes don’t look that new, or clean.”
    Although the checked shirt not tucked into the pants was a nice touch….
    In my experience, farmers work clothes look like industrial work clothes…green….
    These goofs look like they are dressed for a square-dance/line dancing…
    What we used ta call “Yonge Street framers”….

  22. This group of “farmers” is either the National Farmers Union contingent supporting their bureaucrat friends in the CWB or CWB staffers posing as farmers. In either case they are ideological hacks.
    RFB>
    It would be nice if someone actually had the time to go through that list and see how many are actually farmers or are members of Maud Barlow’s Council of Canadians.
    Thank you Minister Ritz, I am free at last.

  23. My hand still feels clammy and smell fishy from shaking Ralph G’s hand during some rail retention meetings in the early 1980s.

  26. There must have been some LPC payola practiced over the years that the likes of Goodale are defending the CWB so vehemently.
    The books must be opened and examined. While we’re at it, why not crack open the ledgers for all these “foundations” set up by Librano mob boss Chretien and his consigliere Martin?

  27. Ralph GoodALE is suffering severe sphincter spasms currently, he and his corrupt slimy liberal friends who have been skimming through this slush fund called the wheat board for years are quite worried the Harper admin. will show Canada what these thieving liberals were up to for the past 50 years. Turdo Cretin Turner etc were Power liberal puppets, that worked good, Mulroney a “conservative” was a Power Corp. man, he did farmers no favours like stopping the theft,he did what the Demarais told him to do, but Steven owes no one anything… Squall on Ralph, right now your just another slime about to be exposed.

  28. The protesters could be farmers,in fact I think that they are.There is only one problem,where was the CBC, and their support for farmers,when farmers were going to jail for selling their own wheat in the CWB area and NO WHERE ELSE IN CANADA WAS IT A CRIME? As for the protesters,there are stupid people all over and some are farmers.

  29. Most of the CWB directors flew there to protest (at farmers’ expense i.e. flights paid for by CWB). My neighbor, who is a director, had to cancel his flight because of another engagement.

  31. Looks like somebody called up Central Casting, and asked for a half-dozen extras to pose as “farmers.”
    Round these here parts, you are more likely to find farmers wearing Motley Crue or AC-DC T-shirts than checked work shirts.

  33. Where are the trolls? I have another puzzler that I have no answer to! Where is siberia and that couch guy?
    Anyway, if the single desk is so beneficial to farmers, and keeps them from getting ripped off, then why is this grand scheme limited to the western farmers? Why not have a board for all of Canada? The logic seems to be that bigger is better, so for the benefit of all, pool all grain in Canada. We could call it something like … the Canadian Wheat Board! Ooops, taken. How about the Dominion Wheat Board? The Queen’s Wheat Board?
    But seriously, what do you have against farmers from Ontario?

  34. have a feeling Davenport and Iberia are down trying to save their tents this morning.
    back in Moms basement this afternoon.

  35. Any time a news story carries only a close-up picture of protesters, you know that they could fit easily onto a small bus.
    “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”

  36. The CWB has always wanted the Government out of their business by sayin the CWB is owned and operated by farmers. What better way to remove Government than to have them repeal the CWB Act. But the 8 wise directors on the board missed their oppertunity to form a truely farmer owned and operated board..GO RITZ GO!!!!! GOODBYE 8 UNWISE???????

  37. “have a feeling Davenport and Iberia are down trying to save their tents this morning. back in Moms basement this afternoon.”
    And Mommy will have Kraft Dinner and P,B&J sandwiches ready for these two wankers when they get home.
    Iberia and Sofaboy remind me of the city slickers we had convinced as kids that chocolate milk comes from brown cows!

  38. From browsing the comments on the CBC article I’m impressed at the large number of urban Easterners who are experts on grain and oilseed marketing. Funny thing though… I bet just a few months ago none of them were even aware of the CWB.

  39. the cwb plebisite suggested 50 some % of farmers voted to keep the wheat board.
    support seems to have wained by this photo.
    i think the cbc and the cwb are of the same ilk and both should be scrapped.
    just think of the money and lies it would save.

  40. What a crock! The government is not eliminating the CWB, rather it is allowing grain farmers to decide where they sell their grain. In other words the government is freeing the prisoners of the CWB. So since the CWB and its “friends” claim to be so great, it should have no trouble doing business in a free market.

  41. The last little blurb I heard on Ottawa talk radio had the steamroller CWB ad bill at 1.4 million.
    That’s friggin’ money that should have gone to producers for the sale of their grain.

  42. Farmers who support the CWB may be the Majority but it still does not justify the majority oppressing the individual rights of other farmers.
    The other argument that even experts miss is the fact that 80% of the production is done by 20% of the farmers who coincidentally do not support the CWB.
    It is just wrong on so many levels.

  43. “I think if anything these guys own “lawns” as opposed to anything to do with acres.”
    Knacker,those COULD be the famous Vancouver wheat farmers,newly minted by Mayor Robertson!
    Murray Westgate was way more authentic.

  45. So our public broadcaster is shilling for the CWB outlaws, who are already probably breaking the law by using farmers’ profits to pay for ads whose sole purpose is to keep the CWB bureaucracy alive in its anti-democratic structure. Now we have two major Government institutions in Canada misspending taxpayer money to advance the cause of the personal political-ideology of Government employee-bureaucrats.
    And if you think the CWB “steamroller” TV ads are misleading, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet until you’ve heard their RADIO ads:
    On the CWB radio ads, a supposed “farmer” speaks out (probably a professional actor) and it has to be one of the most denigrating, paternalizing, and stereotyping image of Western farmers I have ever heard. The “farmer” in the ad comes across as semi-literate, barely able to complete a sentence in proper English, using the colloquialisms of an uneducated country hick from 100 years ago (I’ve personally never met a farmer who talks like that in my entire life — and I used to go to the farmer’s auction every Saturday).
    The Radio ad from the “farmer” was basically: “we can’t help ourselves because we’re too stupid — look we are barely literate, we need the smart Government bureaucrats to market our wheat for us or we will starve!”
    That being said, I think even semi-literate country hicks could market their own wheat better than the CWB bureaucrats, who are only interested in lining their pockets with the profits from the produce of the hard-working farmers. And who pay for the ads by robbing farmers further in collusion with with their fellow CBC taxpayer robber-barons.

  46. “CORPORATE FREEDOM IS NOT FARMER FREEDOM”
    Am I dim? That poster would seem to be self-defeating:
    1. Isn’t the CWB a corporation?
    2. And how exactly does forcing Western farmers to sell to the CWB by law represent “farmer freedom”?
    At the very least, more honesty in advertising, please.
    Why not:
    “WE WANT TO KEEP THE CWB BECAUSE WE’RE HAPPY HAVING THE PRICE OF WHEAT FIXED FOR US”

  47. Those fellas sure musta been nervous getting ready to appear before the CeeBeeCee cameras.
    Just look at the mess they made of themselves shaving. Somebody shoulda told them toilet paper works better than electrical tape to stop bleeding. 🙂

  48. the left is always whining that 60% did not vote for the Harper Conservatives, So that said can the wheatfarmers use the same strategy.
    I know the wheat farmers cant compete with the millions being spent in ads by the cwb, But could they not form a group of opposition & atleast hit the tv talk shows Say Adler, Lilly, Ezra, These of course are all Suntv commentators But would that matter It would probaly not cost a cent, Or hit the Youtube airwaves with some Anti CWB

  49. ‘Tis always a good idea to fight back and stand up for yourselves…those are good ideas bryanr.
    I hope when the day arrives that Western wheat/barley producers can haul THEIR own grain anywhere THEY want that they have every media outlet available covering it.
    But show a little restraint…if the CBC shows up don’t run over they with a set of B-trains. 🙂

  50. I think, Kate, the CBC closeup actually emphasizes the lack of support this group has – a closeup of four people.
    This one is over. The usual suspects will ramble on for a bit, but, once the legislation is passed it will go quietly away.
    I’m reminded about a story I read in Maclean’s, I think, about a small Ontario vintner who visited New York State just when the Free Trade Agreement was coming in. He talked to three wine distributors (there were three in all of Canada then). At least one of them wanted to buy his entire production. If our spring wheat is as good as every one always says it is, I don’t see why something similar wouldn’t happen again.

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