One year ago: CWBA representative L. Nicholson addressing Senate Agriculture Committee on legislation killing our Canadian Wheat Board:
“You are rushing through it. I was over listening to the House of Commons, and they were talking about the . . . bullying in schools. I have never seen such bullying in my life as what this bill has done going through the House of Commons and now the through Senate.”
Over 90 years ago: United Farmers of Alberta leader Henry Wise Wood on democracy:
“It is always difficult to preserve democracy in a society dominated by the concept that progress is the result of a struggle for existence in which only the fittest survive.”