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Maybe the farmers should be doing the exporting

rkaiser

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Pulled this post off our Canucklehead site.

Wonder what you folks think -

the figures came from an NFU document(... gasp, horror, those lunatic socialists!) showing how free trade wasn't workingfor farmers. It was commissioned to show the negative effects the 1989 Canada-US free trade agreement,1994 NAFTA agreement and 1995 WTO agreement on agriculture had on producers. The result of these 14 years of free trade were:

1988 - Canadian agri-food exports $10.9 billion
2002 - Canadian agri-food exports $28.2 billion

1988 - realised net farm income $3.9 billion
2002 - realised net farm income $4.1 billion

1988 - farm debt $22.5 billion
2002 - farm debt $44.2 billion

These figures obviously will pale into insignificance when compared to the 2003-2005 results with the major ramping up of tran-national piracy through the "BSE" crisis and low grain prices.
 

Econ101

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rkaiser said:
Pulled this post off our Canucklehead site.

Wonder what you folks think -

the figures came from an NFU document(... gasp, horror, those lunatic socialists!) showing how free trade wasn't workingfor farmers. It was commissioned to show the negative effects the 1989 Canada-US free trade agreement,1994 NAFTA agreement and 1995 WTO agreement on agriculture had on producers. The result of these 14 years of free trade were:

1988 - Canadian agri-food exports $10.9 billion
2002 - Canadian agri-food exports $28.2 billion

1988 - realised net farm income $3.9 billion
2002 - realised net farm income $4.1 billion

1988 - farm debt $22.5 billion
2002 - farm debt $44.2 billion

These figures obviously will pale into insignificance when compared to the 2003-2005 results with the major ramping up of tran-national piracy through the "BSE" crisis and low grain prices.

"Free trade" is great for the traders. Maybe not the rest of us. It brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator---price----without having to pay the full costs of the non price components.
 

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