I see this, it brings a flood of emotions, patriotism, memories, and
just good feelings. Simply the best piece this league, MY league, has ever put out.
Period.

John

Listened to your show on local market gardens.

This is a prime example of uninformed people not using their common sense. You picked out 9 or so out of 10 points in the New York writers list that were not worth while talking about. The last one on his apples from New Zealand being cheaper than ones grown in the UK was just as stupid.

If you pick an apple off a tree in the UK and pick one off the tree in New Zealand it is exactly the same apple. Pretty simple stuff. No price differences involved. There is no carbon foot print.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the all of the garbage between the picking and the eating is a result of government bungling.

The price of a gallon of fuel in the UK is over $11.00 per gallon.

If the labour government in the UK wants to prevent people in the UK from growing their own food that's great. It has nothing to do with anything except stupidity.

The same is true in Canada. If Dion wants to keep taxing us, it has nothing to do with the cost of cabbage. He will simply put us out of business too.

The semi trailer coming out of the U.S. will probably be stopped at the border and tax added to make sure the carbon foot print is taxed. A carbon foot print does not exist. Taxes exist.

I am sure that when the city and the provinces finish with the infrastructure in the new transport development program that people will not want to add these costs into the price of the cabbage.

Don't forget that to sell 100,000 cabbages takes 100,000 people going to the store with 100,000 cars to buy them. These people should take the bus to buy their groceries from New Zealand or the U.S.

Stupid people make stupid statements. Support your local farmers and stop listening to some dumb fool talking about a carbon foot print that does not exist.

2/3 of the cost of a gallon or litre of fuel in the UK is taxes. Tell Dion that we want an economy that makes sense not some stupid fool putting everyone out of business.

Dion doesn't know anything about the real cost of real goods and an economy that makes sense. It is impossible to convince me that a local cabbage is more expensive than one from California. No rocket science here.

Apply this to everything in Canada today and you will see what a mess Dion wants to make of the Canadian economy. Support your local businesses and be happy that you have the freedom to do so.

What an intelligent, sensible comment! I applaud you for applying common sense. Of course it cost less to buy the local product, when you can. Unfortunately, the local product usually has to pay for space at a farmers' market or some such venue and, incidently, make a little profit.

For example, the Regina Farmers' Market has some lovely produce, but will I pay $3 for a head of cabbage? No, I won't. The only thing I will pay the going price at the Farmers' Market is peas, straight out of the pod. Bliss is a big bag of peas to eat as nature made them.

When I think about free economy and enterprise, I realize how little actual freedom we have. When you're young and able-bodied, you just don't have the time. When you're older and retired, you don't have the physical capacity to circumvent the "system".

Despite our various laws and protections, how much actual freedom do we have any more? Somebody or something owns everything. Can I pitch a tent in a pretty piece of land? No, it's owned. I have the freedom to go to work, pay my taxes, practice petty little economies (like growing my own garden and sewing my own clothes), but am stuck with societal institutions for everything else that makes life worth living. And we have it better than most of the rest of the world. Makes you think!

A fan where, John? I thought the Roughriders played at Taylor Field!