30 Replies to “Wildrose Country”

  1. Note that the Alberta government will be consulting with producers to determine the best way to implement the changes. So no consultation before hand. Except with native groups, presumably.

  3. Re: How dare you not vote NDP??
    Yesterday I commented on CBC.Ca; the story was about Brad Wall asking Justin Trudeau to hold back on installing Syrian refugees in Canada. One comment was a rant about Saskatchewan not wanting to join in with the rest of Canada, and that Trudeau had a mandate from the people that HE needed to carry out!
    My deleted comment was: ”This is one province that did not vote for Mr. Trudeau!”
    Assuming that the CBC knows that Saskatchewan is in Canada, I thought that it a gang of C*&?*&ers to delete a comment that is 100% accurate!

  4. Re: How dare you not vote NDP??
    Yesterday I commented on CBC.Ca; the story was about Brad Wall asking Justin Trudeau to hold back on installing Syrian refugees in Canada. One comment was a rant about Saskatchewan not wanting to join in with the rest of Canada, and that Trudeau had a mandate from the people that HE needed to carry out!
    My deleted comment was: ”This is one province that did not vote for Mr. Trudeau!”
    Assuming that the CBC knows that Saskatchewan is in Canada, I thought that it showed a gang of C*&?*&ers to delete a comment that is 100% accurate!

  6. Notley will claim she has created a couple of hundred jobs, but they are government union
    jobs funded on the back of producers and taxpayers. Another cog in the NDP control and wealth distribution plan. I keep thinking I will wake up from the nightmare in Canada,
    but I guess I am dreaming.

  8. This new legislation was exactly my worst fear when I first heard the details regarding the Bott sisters dying in the grain truck not too long ago. I don’t intend to sound callous because even I first operated a tractor at age 7 but, in this day in age with all the rules that are being set for everyone else the family farm was pretty much the last bastion for the government to sink its teeth into. What other place can kids perform the same duties that most adults need certification to perform?
    This kind of legislation is going to hurt farmers and raise prices for everyone. Some of me believes this could have been avoided, but most of me believes it was inevitable given the overwhelming evidence of overreaching government.

  9. “Under the proposed legislation, the OHS Act and regulations would apply when an employer engages the services of a worker, regardless of whether or not the worker is paid (for example, neighbours who volunteer their help) and regardless of the worker’s age.”
    Fricking commies.

  10. you may not know this but all current laws apply to anything a homeowner does if a non-family member is involved.

  11. Before the Commies, Russia was a net exporter of grain. A big exporter. During Communism, of course, they became massive importers. You can read about it in the book From under the Rubble, by Solzhenitsyn et al. He gives several examples.
    Eventually the authorities had to relent a little, or see everyone (maybe even themselves) starve, so individual plots were allowed.
    Alberta had oil and agricultural products. Now it will have neither.
    At some point (and I think this is what the residual oil sector in Alberta is counting on) both Notley and Trudeau will start to wonder where their revenues went. And then their finance ministers will tell them that borrowing is getting very expensive. So they will loosen up a little, in practice, though not in theory.
    We are going to be going through a lot of pain before then.

  12. And they will say, “why can’t we just do quantitative easing, the way Barack did.” And then the Notley creature will be told she’s not in charge of any currency, and the Trudeau will listen to an explanation to the effect that “Barack” could only do so because he had the world’s reserve currency at his disposal.

  16. Safety regulations are for pussies, right Lance? Who needs safety regulations when health care is free?

  17. Nice to see them consulting the people that will be affected by it in November and December, then implementation is January 1 2016. Wow I guess there won’t be any new thoughts be brought up at he meetings since the NDP has had them already. Some consultation, it’s more of here is the legislation deal with it.

  18. Hey guys, get into the 1990’s. It costs nothing to abide by provincial regulations. Stop tearing your arms off in the combine. The potash mines went from the attitude expressed here to the safest mines in the world so everyone gets to go home to their families every night.

  19. This is bad enough if the cost was spread over every loaf of bread, box of pasta and bottle of beer. That will not be the case though. Farmers do not, nor can not set the price to pass this on.
    This will be on their backs only.

  20. It will be interesting to see if certain religious groups who have been using the farm exemption to run oilfield/ manufacturing/ trucking/ building contractor services will be forced to comply.

  21. The legislation will require farms to carry insurance, when the insurers decide that it’s too expensive to insure for “x”, this will make “x” against the law as the law requires insurance for “x” …
    When did insurers became our legal custodians?
    Perhaps if just include the cost of insurance in each item that’s sold to city types, it’ll eventually be covered.
    A little bit of fallow doesn’t hurt anyone . The farmers can always work a couple seasons in the oil patch until this gov’t goes away.
    uff

  22. Bingo!
    This story reminds of what two NDP cabinet ministers said on two different occassions in the late 70s and early 80s. Paraphrased. “Why do farmers need to own their own land”. This was about the time the NDP started a government “land bank” program whereby the government bought land and then rented it to farmers.
    The NDP would just love to implement a collective farming system, and laws like this by Motely is the start of the squeeze.

  24. If Alberta was a company I would have dumped all my stock by now, laughing on the sidelines.

  25. Enbridge lays off 5,000 workers, claims it is unrelated to Keystone pipeline decision.

  26. First Energy states they are “over-invested” in Alberta and are looking at diversifying away from the province, possibly to Saskatchewan, United States or even Eastern Canada.
    When Eastern Canada looks like a better investment than Alberta…

  28. re comment: Who needs safety regulations when health care is free?
    Therein lies the rub – When health care is “free” your government will dictate how you live your life to mitigate their responsibility. What they give with one hand they will take with the other, with significant surcharge for their “benevolence.”

  29. Yes, how dare you resist safety measures! Why are you against safety? Let me guess; signs, paperwork, checklists, certifications, licenses, mandatory videos and seminars. All paper pushing. Just gov jobs and overseers with clipboards. That machine isn’t getting any safer with that stuff.
    So you finally get compliant, and then a whole new batch of regs come down the pipe. New paperwork, new checklists, new certifications, new courses. More time and $$ for the gov.
    “Safety Third” Look it up.

  30. The point here is that they figure the (soon to be formerly) farm owning parents of these kids don’t care enough about these kids safety. That the government of Albert needs to step in to keep little kids safe from their parents.
    This is an excuse to expand government jobs. They don’t give a shit about farm worker’s safety. You might one weepy old hand-wringer who is sincere, but the rest of them, just want a few more parasites on the payroll.

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