There are many ugly facets of organized crime and this could be another one of them.

Thanks to our Liberal Government for making us all want to hang our heads in shame in being Canadian. I believe this is the result of the type of politicians we elect into power over and over again. Once you have many millions in your bank account, you simply cannot have the proper judgement to relate to common Canadians. Those who serve their God of Market Forces, believe that this will be best in every instance. Yet why do we always elect this type of politician? You can be sure the next Government will be Stephen Harper and his bunch who will be worse than what we have now.The electorate don't ever seem to want to be led by the Jack Layton type. Why? Here in BC we already have neo-cons, who bring nothing but market forces mantra into everything they do. This is not good governing.

I have never felt so helpless and cynical as I do now with our current governments. This is why we don't vote. What's the point.

Here is a letter that I sent to the PM and many of his retunue:

Hello Mr. Martin:
I am tired, exhausted, disheartened with the goverments of Canada at the Federal and Provincial levels in the provinces where I live and work (BC, and AB). I am tired of the corruption, the lack of accountability, the l;ack of respect for the citizenry. I am tired of the callousness exhibit by the bureaucrats at every level, the lack of insight and vision that would benefit our communities and future generations. We have scandals galore to prove it. Pharmaceutical companies making policies that kill us, increase the burden on our health care system. The lawyer supporting the liberal party caught in Alberta with a case full of money. We have waste of money (hard earned, I work 7 months in BC and 5 months in Alberta. I am 59 years old and have raised 7 children, all taxpayers), in every direction, like giving money to FORD and to GM and to many other companies that will never pay it back, or contracts to your companies' friends.
The level of mistrust has been hightened with the changes that has been done by the Chretien government to the agricultural policies that now are being more and more in the direction of giving companies like Monsanto, Aventis, Dreifruss, Cargill and other members of the Agribusiness seven sisters, more than what they deserve.
Now we have these situation of threatening to take the right of farmers to save their seeds. It is bad enough the changes made to the Canadian Seed bank. This new police of stoping farmers from saving their seeds, ignores the provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources ratified by Canada, and threatens the economic and ecological integrity of Canadian agricultural lands and communities since it will serve the narrow commercial interests of nefarious biotech companies like Monsanto.
You must enshrine the Right to Save Seeds. Canadian farmers has always had the right to collect seed and grow and it should be protected in separate legislation that is clear and strong. Your goverment must expand Public Plant Breeding Instead of shrinking it. The involvement of the Government of Canada in providing plant breeding that the public has access to is vital, and should be expanded to maintain our natural plant genetic diversity.
The organic industry growth due to the fact that we don't thrust the government decision of firing scientists that disagree with the lack of scientific rigour in the "papers and reports of biotech firms," or the BSE problems or the soil erosion problems created by bad agricultural policies and basically we see our goverment officials and bureaucrats supporting and protecting "the money donors to the political party in power;" instead of protecting the country and the people of Canada.
The government needs to develop an Organic Seed Sector. Organic farmers should not have to deal with the challenge of finding organic seed sources for the things they want to grow. This seed sector needs growth to support a thriving organic food market, which is the fastest-growing food market in North America. Meanwhile we are witnessing you trying to protect an industry that is dying, the agribusiness, high energy intense agricultural business; that is totally dependent in fossil fuels. Oil is 50 dollars a barrel. Is it your intention to leave us in the dark/freeze (by exporting all our oil and gas) and let us starve by obliging us to be dependent in the likes of Monsanto?
Well, I have a Member of Parliament that was forced on my constituency (David Emerson). Isn't enough that the democratic process has been distorted? Isn't enough that among us immigrants the word is out about how to get "favors" in order to get some favorite loser in the MP sit?
AS I look at the political landscape, I am afraid for my children and grandchildren. I tell them don't thrust these liberals in power, be it at federal or provincial level and the comnservatives are no different.
Please don't send us to the path of starvation and lack of food security. I no longer eat meat, nor chicken, if I don't know who grew it. I don't eat fish because of the farmed fish that is destroying our wild stocks and further eroding our confidence in the food system. Now you are going to screew us further by destroying the right of farmers to keep their seeds?
How fucked up that can be? Sorry my language, but the liberals (after Trudeau)and the conservatives have just done that: one fuck up after the other.
The only thing good from the Chretien government is his lack of support for dubya's Iraq invasion. On the rest, he is an arrogant, politician that gave us nothing but problems. When he left I said: good ridance and I can't wait to see you go, if your policies continue to be like this one.
BASTA. We have had enough.
Stop the madness. Let farmers have the right to save their seeds enshrined in an Agricultural ACT.
Very disapointed, very tired, very disgusted with this endless amaricanization and destruction of our institutions and values.
I sined my name, even though here I keep it anonimous.

Good comments in the letter wellherewegoagain.

I think this is the type of issue that citizens should be up behind the farmers on and force the issue, embarrass local Liberals and dig out the links between big-ag, big-chem and big-Liberal.

This is far more than a local farmers fight. We all eat and we will all be impacted, poisonsed, whatever.

When an issue like this becomes too late it really will be too late and food security will be lost for ever to
our children, grandchildren and future generations while big-chem and big-ag work to force even more of this frankenstein stuff onto our plates.

I don't understand the opposition to terminator seeds. If you want to keep your seed, then don't use terminator seeds. It is that simple. It's not like anyone is forcing people to use them; poor peasant farmers are perfectly free to use their traditional seeds. This is a manufactured crisis by those philosophically opposed to biotech.

Jon, cross-pollination.

I see in the future a new slant on marijuana grow ops. Secret crops of corn, wheat, barley etc. The RCMP will really have their hands full.

It is a blotch on our western ways to think that our ways, and yes, terminator seeds included, are in any way of assistance to those people of the world who are, or until recently were self sufficient in practicing sustainable agriculture. When we ultimately fail by our ways, these societies were in a position to inherit the earth; with their bio-diversity, tuned to their particular climate and soil conditions, and with every societal member sufficiently knowledgeable to at least feed themselves.

Enter the Corporation, backed by their mouthpiece, (Our Government) and anything that may have been sacred, is just another business opportunity: another chance at exploitation of the already exploited in the name or greed.

It is just that diversity of food crops selected over centuries that is at stake, and as such, and ultimately our future as a species is on the line, and isn’t that enough to ban such short term foolishness? How can otherwise rational people promote such folly, perhaps they are immune to starvation and other laws of nature that follow the “green revolution” supported by cheap energy and fossil fertilizer.

They can’t even exterminate the rabbits from Australia, and whom do you hold responsible to put this Jennie back in the bottle, and all farmers/consumers will pay the price Monsanto asks, as they will own and control the seeds. What a comforting thought!

WE need a regime change in Canada!
Pure shitfaced greed.

REAL: But if pollen from a terminator plant gets onto a not-terminator plant, the seed will not be viable, so the gene can not spread. Terminator technology is intrinsically self-limiting. The only problem would be if a non-terminator crop was planted right next to a terminator crop. Then the affected farmer could sue the terminator crop owner. Rather than opposing terminator technology, perhaps environmental groups could set up a legal fund to allow anyone adversely affected to sue the company involved. It would be easy enough to prove that the terminator gene was responsible.

Jon Colvin, If you want to eat round up go ahead
thats the whole thing about the terminator seed.
The facts behinde cross-pollination are that the non -geneticly altered plant that gets contaminated from geneticly altered pollin can and will produce a fertile seed then these greedy bastards sue the farmer because they can prove the plant has that genetics and Monsanto owns your crop and the "poor non corporate farmer" ends up paying under patent laws and tech agreements..the poor farmer never gets the chance to sue...so go ahead eat all the man made food you want but don't go crying to the world when you start to glow in the dark or if the doctor finds a herbicide in your blood on your next check up------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Farmers even have been sued after their fields were contaminated by pollen or seed from a previous year’s crop has sprouted, or “volunteered,” in fields planted with non-genetically engineered varieties the following year; and when they never signed Monsanto’s Technology Agreement but still planted the patented crop seed. In all of these cases, because of the way patent law has been applied, farmers are technically liable. It does not appear to matter if the use was unwitting or if a contract was never signed. copy and paste the following link--------------------------ttp://www.percyschmeiser.com/Monsantovs Farmers.htm

I'm sure you know how to use google I think you can find enough info to challenge your thoughts on Genetly altered foods..

What Spud said!!!!!!!

This article reinforces something I've long suspected about the federal "Liberals". Mr. Dobbin notes that this pro-corporate shift in our foreign policy became noticeable about 15 years ago. When Jean Chretien put together his first government in 1992, he immediately lifted the embargo on arms sales to Indonesia, which at the time (and for 17 years previously) was busily slaughtering the people of East Timor. That always surprised me: that a "Liberal", Canadian government would undo something like this (ironically put in place by the much reviled, supposedly right wing Mulroney government). As with the terminator seeds, money for wealthy corporations friendly with the Liberals was more important than principle, or human lives.

In the west we know from Ag Canada studies that the genes from GM canola migrate into adjacent related plant species. Should the terminator gene do the same thing, it could be a disaster for other food crops.