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Originally Posted by gemy  Well as a Canadian any legislator I have is not going to have much influence on USA law making. I think I have done what I can personally to be heard and to show my support for responsible breeders south of the border.
We shall see if this regulation passes, and what after five years or so is the impact. |
You might see if one can give you entree to talking with the offices of legislators of the border state you most frequently deal with should you get an overly aggressive inspector or problem confront you. I know networking and the value of friendships forged trying to work together surely did help those of us dealing with many of the horrors our Texas Managed Care and Clean Claims laws and workmens' compensation overhaul brought about from years of problems in healthcare and work. comp. We very often started out bitter enemies and through keeping a dialogue open and some give-and-take, worked through what I often thought were insurmountable problems at times. I can't tell you how often I went to bed deeply depressed only to have some colleague of someone I'd never met call to give me the name of a buddy to call for some one-on-one help in one of our Fed/State Agencies. I wrote letters at home nights as my work was too demanding during the day to do it. And then to see the legislative amendments put forth, opened for public comment, sweat those times out, meeting challenges as they arose and finally see the law passed as amended with the bad law rescinded was such a party. And once even the Governor's office sent me a copy of a particular dear piece of signed legislation with his gold-embossed card attached and a little note on it. And I'd only written them a few times and spoken to a couple of aides there. But all the hard work and persistence to work through the bureaucratic red tape and outright administrative/legislative insanity won out for us 99% of the time. And we even had problems to deal with involving a sister company of BC/BS of Illinois in the country of Columbia and an international nightmare of twisted issues there involving a domestic abuse injury case of a Columbian VIP's wife during a time of serious political stress involving that country.