What’s the Wheat Board and why do farmers need it back?

(February 23, 2016) First, let’s be clear.  The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) was not a monopoly, or supply management, nor was it a socialist institution imposed on the powerless west to help a bunch of illiterate immigrant farmers as some would have you believe. The CWB was more than just its office building, rail cars and grain ships.  The CWB was the most successful of capitalist...

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