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Donnie..I like Saskatchewan. It is a beautiful province but under a government that would rather set up a crown corporation to go into direct competition with independant businesses rather than have any balls to encourage independant business growth does not provide much of an incentive for people to move here. Too many part time jobs with no benefits and a rather destructive taxation system doesn't look all that great.

My neice is her own person who made her own decisions. No one told her what to do.

Hopefully the latest government plan to attempt to increase cattle processing will help out this province but there is a lot more potential here that has not been tapped into.

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The "have" provinces are Ontario and oil-rich Alberta

Before long it will be Alberta AND BC that are resource rich. We are very resource rich here and we have only just been getting started this past 4 years under the BC Libs. And we have a major port.

Have a little think about that the next time you are on the crapper.

I never said BC was a have province,it could be fairly soon and I'm not from BC. Too expensive there.

Transfer payments here.

Who gets what

Why don't you check out the BC Election thread on here.

Plenty of discussion around BCs prosperity in there.

You're a tad in denial, me thinks

Why don't you check out the BC Election thread on here.

Plenty of discussion around BCs prosperity in there.

You're a tad in denial, me thinks

Fair enough Donny, what about the ethanol plant? Construction may never begin. And if ethanol is so viable why don't they just set up back home in Colorado? What about Spudco? It was a complete failure.

Quite your nonsense about the underpaid workers, discuss it with your boss or through your union. Workers are on the open market same as anything else, if you want more money try and make yourself more valuable or take blessing in what you have.

You asked about grain prices that is a very good example of the fault in socialist philosophy. The CWB was developed to take the risk out of farming, with great success. But risk takes away opportunity for profit. Insurance costs money, you pay a fee every month and your safe, but you never make money, at best your paid enough to repair or replace what was insured. Inversely the insurance company your pay receives a nice pile of money, but they always run the risk of you making a claim, they cover the wrong thing during the wrong disaster and their bankrupt.

If your take out risk your take out any opportunity for profit. to quote a local farmer "Breaking even for thirty years is not an option." Government policy has destroyed that grain industry in this country. We MUST change to compete.

The cattle industry has had less subsidisation then any other part of agriculture and has never been under supply management, alas the BSE disaster has caused a panic rather then take advantage and replace depreciated cattle, they have asked for government assistance. Now well over a years and a half after the crisis has ended and a market better then that of 1997 is in place the desire for subsidisation is leading down a dangerous path of bureaucracy and breakeven.

Sometimes we should do nothing, now is one of those times.

http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/pubs.htm

I'm not gonna waste my time posting facts, BC is way better place to live and has alot of resources that we dont exploit if we wanted to wreck are tourism industry we could be way ahead of Saskatchewan (i'm sure we are)

I agree with PBJ . What we need is major tax reform.

Here is what I suggest:

All provincial expences covered by the provincial government. Privatise healthcare, itroduce a charter forbiding any subsidisation and place educatiaon under provincial taxation not RM mill rates. Repell income, liqor, gas and sales tax. Divide the provinces expendatures by the population and send each citizen a bill, if they fail they are not reqognized as a citizen of Saskatchewan and lose their right to vote and must pay for the use of services such as police, fire, etc.

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

Ben Franklin, 1766

I'll back a bet that next it will be BC and then NS. Okay, NS may be in 5 to 10 years or so, but we're slowly getting there. The unemployment rate is now under 8%, under 7% if you exclude Cape Breton. It'll be a few years yet, but soon, the good people of NS will get to pay their fair share to Quebec too.

I remain very skeptical of this thread. What does a "have" provence mean to you? As far as I'm concerned, Saskatchewan is still dependent on government assistance, but is (and never was) one of the larger thieves in canada *caugh* Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick *caugh* I am just curious as to how Saskatchewan intends to grow any industry when the provence has a negative population growth. ?? Secondly, although oil is a valuable commodity, why is the government NOW putting such an emphasis on growing this industry when other countries around the world are working to diversify AWAY from oil in their economies? Does anybody here think Canada is becoming too dependent on oil? Do we run the risk of, in a few decades, ending up back at square one? Just a thought.

J

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