Canada is a great country to live in as long as you are not a food producing farmer. It is somehow perceived by our governments that if farmers in Europe would get less money for their farm produce it would stop urban inflation dead in Canada.
To me it seems like a fool way of thinking. We have now come to a point where only imported goods are sold in Canada. We have been building shopping malls to sell these and not factories to manufacture goods for our own needs.
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Canada has become an import-export country. We export farm produce because it’s sold at Third World prices.
And (we) also export high tech manufactured goods to other countries not because they are cheap like farm produce but because these countries that import these goods cannot produce or manufacture the thing themselves. …
I only saw Buzz Hargrove come on TV saying auto workers’ wages have not gone up. …
Well, Mr. Hargrove, I do not know where you have been, surely not in Canada as I have seen auto workers’ wages go from 78 cents an hour to $22 and $26 an hour while No. 2 wheat has gone from $1.54 to $2.93 a bushel. Bread has gone from seven cents to $1.35 a loaf.
Mr. Hargrove, if wheat took a jump like auto workers’ wages, you and others would starve and would not be able to afford food.
– John Pokorney,
Tilley, Alta.
