This is the same leadership THAT CLAIMS they were trying to drop the trade barriers against US cattle from the US HERD going into Canada--For 10+ years :???:- and nothing happened... Until the Canadians were stuck with no market because of BSE  and then promised anything and came up with this joke NORTH AMERICAN herd idea....

And from what I hear they are happy as pigs in you no what now that they are back riding on the shirtails of what the US producer built and have dropped the BSE era promises of dropping their protectionist barriers- one of the reasons NCBA hasn't blanketly sanctioned the OTM proposal........[/quot

Oldtimer do you remember the North west Project? It put ten cents on your calves when the Canadian buyers went south for calves. Why do you think Goggins want to stir things up with R-CALF. He didn't  want calves going north and losing the commissions. Really pissed him off that the canucks might come down and buy calves in the country. That was well before BSE and it was the CCA pushing hard to get something started on this Blue T and Anaplas issuse.

 Econ how do you know that the disaster payments didn't help Canadian producers. They were not  designed to get rich on but sure helped keep cattle being fed and groceries on the table.