[Dr Caleb]

RickW wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Wheat_Board#First_wheat_boards

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Farmers were impressed by the success of state-led marketing as it was practised during World War I.

We aren't telling them. They are telling themselves.

As for "sarcasm", you "righties" are often bereft of such a trait......

Yes, my Avatar is bereft full of seriousness.

Wow. World War I. 100 Years ago, almost. Considering almost everyone who was a farmer back then is now deceased, do you think farming has changed any since then? If the wheat board is so great, why doesn't it apply to Eastern Farmers? Why are more western farmers planting soy and other pulses instead of wheat and barley - so they can determine their own destiny?

I've always been a fan of getting paid for work. So when the wheat board confiscates buys their wheat and barley, why does it take 6 to 18 months to get paid? I could understand if they want to dump it.

[RickW]

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I could understand if they want to dump it.

You mean CARGILL wants it to be dumped.

BTW, Parliament is 140+ years old with no significant change to reflect "modern times"........

[Brent Swain]

It looks like there are years of court challenges ahead before they can do Cargill's bidding, all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. By then the Tories will be facing another election, the wheat board issue will still be before the courts, and in the media, and the one issue they have to sell farmers, scraping the gun registry, will be long done with.
Then farmers in Sask and Manitoba can vote NDP, and the new NDP government can play dead and throw in the towel on any attempt to win the right to scrap the wheat board. Then the supreme Court will rule that they don't have the right to scrap it without the support of farmers, and this decision will be legally cast in stone.