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Originally Posted by mykalberta
If a vote was taken by all farmers based on land owned, there would be no problem getting it through.
The problem comes with the old farmer who owns 700 acres and still thinks that is enough to have a good living off and he wants to give it to his son.
Once they die off, the opposition will be non existent.
I have been involved with 3 different trips across the border to get on avreage an extra 3$/bushell of wheat and that was when the dollar wasnt near as good as it is today.
The CWB is an antiquated machine built for a time when you had a plethora of farmers owning a few hundred acres. At that time it was needed, but the economics of farming has changed and so should the CWB.
MYK
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I'm probably with you on the CWB, but the exchange rate appreciation has definitely hurt this type of transaction, not helped it.