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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 38672"><p>Here we go again. All of our problems are not caused by the Americans. But this is what happened to the best of my recollection. In the province I live in, we had capacity and more for all our slaughtering needs. In the early eighties, there were 7 large slaughtering plants in Manitoba. When the free trade agreement was struck, feedlot owners and packers started coming from the States and buying our cattle. The US $ was worth more than the CDN $ and our guys just couldn't compete. Our last large plant closed in the early 90's. But we had a North American market, so that didn't really matter. We were growing the beef, US was buying the beef. We were making money, US was making money and everybody was happy. All of a sudden, it is no longer a North American market and we have no place to sell our cattle. Even though, I am aware that in some ways we let that happen, if there had been no free trade agreement, it wouldn't have happened because we'd still have our slaughter facilities.</p><p></p><p>OH BOY, NAFTA (I should suht up now but I won't)</p><p>Ross told folks NAFTA was BAD BAD, but they insisted on making fun of him.</p><p>Klinton and his minions along with a bunch of the stupid publicans pushed it through and now WE (are Canadian friends included) are paying the price</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 38672"] Here we go again. All of our problems are not caused by the Americans. But this is what happened to the best of my recollection. In the province I live in, we had capacity and more for all our slaughtering needs. In the early eighties, there were 7 large slaughtering plants in Manitoba. When the free trade agreement was struck, feedlot owners and packers started coming from the States and buying our cattle. The US $ was worth more than the CDN $ and our guys just couldn't compete. Our last large plant closed in the early 90's. But we had a North American market, so that didn't really matter. We were growing the beef, US was buying the beef. We were making money, US was making money and everybody was happy. All of a sudden, it is no longer a North American market and we have no place to sell our cattle. Even though, I am aware that in some ways we let that happen, if there had been no free trade agreement, it wouldn't have happened because we'd still have our slaughter facilities. OH BOY, NAFTA (I should suht up now but I won't) Ross told folks NAFTA was BAD BAD, but they insisted on making fun of him. Klinton and his minions along with a bunch of the stupid publicans pushed it through and now WE (are Canadian friends included) are paying the price [/QUOTE]
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