Stick to facts

by 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...

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Is Farmer Ownership of the CWB another Smokescreen?

by on Oct 24, 2013 in Articles and Letters

By: Dean Allen Harder Manitoba With all the smoke from Ag Minister Ritz, it is getting hard to breathe any truth in here. Now the appointed board of Ritz’s CWB (formerly the Canadian Wheat Board) has finally made a move in this saga known as “a transition towards privatization”.  They say they will give farmers a $5 stake in the “new company” for every tonne of wheat they sell through...

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