That's enough scrapping.  It's not just Randy that thinks this, it's about 99.9% of Canadian cattle producers.

Perhaps the plants in the U.S. did make less money than they would like, but they made up the lossses with the income from the Canadian divisions.  How could they not make money buying cattle at our prices, then selling beef to you at your prices?  Do the math.  Buy low, sell high.  Isn't that the dream of all businessmen?  If they could lose money at that, then they wouldn't even be in business in normal times.  They would be complete idiots.

I can see packers who didn't have plants here wanting the border open, but those who are on both sides of the border were quite happy with things just the way they were.  They were more than willing to go with the flow, as they say, until they could see that it was coming to an end.  I expect with the prospect of the loss of a captive supply (in the truest sense of the word), that they could see it was time to make a token show of support for us, since they wouldn't want us too mad at them when the new competition came bidding on cattle.  They want us to forget the pillaging that went on, and go back to business as usual. 

We've been educated now, and I sure hope we don't fall back into the old ways.  That would be the worst thing that could happen.