Conservative Gratitude

Thanks to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and minister of agriculture Garry Ritz, we now have the Conservative Wheat Board, all political appointees, since all our elected farmer directors were fired.  The farmers for Just Us seem to think they have marketing freedom.  What a farce.  We are now all slaves to the vagaries of a fluctuating market. Other things for which we can be thankful to our...

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Three By-elections

In the three Federal by-elections just concluded, Elections Canada reports that in two of them, the majority voted against the person who won.  Two of the so-called winners were supported by only 37% of the voters because of vote splitting among the other candidates.  If you believe representative democracy means majority rule, this amounts to the counterfeit of democracy. Farmers who ran the...

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