Supreme Court rules in favour of shippers
but farmers still captive (July 22, 2014) On the face of it the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling that shippers have the right to appeal to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on things like fuel surcharges imposed by railways on existing contracts might seem like good news for farmers. An Ottawa based transportation lawyer is quoted as saying the decision upholds the 2008 Canada...
Read MoreRitz still sees positives while farmers lose money
“The Canadian Wheat Board is dead but CWB, its government-owned, open-market successor, is still a lightning rod for controversy.” – Manitoba Cooperator Last week Minister Ritz was quoted in the Manitoba Cooperator claiming killing the single desk Canadian Wheat Board is having a positive impact across the prairies. He is starting to sound like one of those 1960’s “Chatty...
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...
Read MoreFairy Dust stalls Senate
(May 13, 2014) There is more news on the Fairy Dust for Grain Farmers Act. Apparently a procedural matter has slowed the Senate’s rubber stamping this bit of legislative smoke and mirrors with predicable huffing and puffing from Conservative Senators desperate to be seen doing something to off-set the billions of dollars of damage they’ve already done to western grain farmers by killing the...
Read MoreFairy Dust for Grain Farmers Act
(May 5, 2014) On May 1 the misnamed Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act (Bill C-30) hit what Conservative partisans called a “speed bump” when several of its provisions were ruled Out of Order by Speaker of the House Andrew Scheer after a point of order was raised by independent Edmonton-St. Albert, Alberta, MP Brent Rathgeber last month (April 10/14). Mr. Rathgeber understood the implications...
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