FARMERS VOTE: “HANDS OFF OUR WHEAT BOARD”
It is a fact that all summer the prairies have been buzzing with the news the Conservatives intend to destroy our Canadian Wheat Board. Farmers were outraged that the federal government said they would ignore the law and simply dissolve the CWB by repealing the legislation. Farmers and their elected CWB Directors repeatedly asked Minister Ritz to obey the law and hold a binding plebiscite among...
Read MoreSet your GPS to “hands off our Wheat Board”
The Canadian Wheat Board Director elections really matter to the livelihood of thousands of prairie grain farmers. Because the CWB is central to our financial survival, the director elections are always hotly contested and the turnout is high. And it’s no mystery why farmers regularly give 80% of the Director seats to candidates who support the single desk. Farmers like that the high quality...
Read MoreRitz’s working group a sham
The American humorist Will Rogers once said “where everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much at all.” He could have been talking about federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s new working group to plan for the end of the Canadian Wheat Board. The only people on this working group are industry-funded cheerleaders. Little wonder, when farmers, producer car loaders and...
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