Supreme Court makes second class citizens of farmers
(April 9, 2015) Today the Supreme Court of Canada rejected a Leave to Appeal by the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB). You can read the FCWB news release here. What this boils down to is that in spite of the fact the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) brand had tremendous value to farmers just as patents, like the ones Monsanto has been granted on genetics, have tremendous value to...
Read MoreRitz successful in removing farmers’ rights
Giant Agro-chemical seed companies win passage of Agricultural Growth Act (November 28, 2014) Over the past few weeks the farm papers have been full of quotes from Agriculture Minister Ritz claiming he has made the right to save seed absolutely clear in his Agricultural Growth Act (C-18) which was passed in Ottawa this week. In a way he has – although not in the way many may think. With the...
Read MoreStick to facts
by admin on Nov 11, 2014 in Articles and Letters
By Bill Woods, The Starphoenix November 7, 2014 In a recent media interview, Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz continued his pattern of prevarication in discussing the privatization and sale of the newly created CWB. He said that if the farmer-elected directors of the former Canadian Wheat Board were honest, they would have admitted their agency had more liabilities than assets. He was falsely...
Read MoreWhere is the CWB Audit?
(September 29, 2014) With all the fuss over the private grain trade using their new-found position as middlemen between farmers and international customers to take over two billion dollars in extra profits just on wheat in the last crop year, the shenanigans surrounding Ritz’s crippled Wheat Board have been largely overlooked. This spring for the first time in 79 years the CWB failed to make...
Read MoreCWB Audit Missing In Action
by admin on Jun 17, 2014 in News Release
(Pelly, Sk., June 17, 2014) Farmers are wondering why the Minister of Agriculture has failed to meet the legal deadline for filing the 2012-2013 Audited Statement for the Wheat Board he created. “With the chaos in grain marketing this year and a $17 billion dollar class action law suit over the destruction of the farmer-controlled CWB, this delay raises concerns about why the Minister of...
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