Wheat sparks verbal battle in Parliament
Agriculture Minister James Gardiner fended off accusations that the Canada-U. K. wheat agreement cost Prairie farmers $330 million over the five-year pool that ended July 31, 1950. Gardiner said the postwar deal delivered higher returns than farmers would have received under the open market. In fact, there was no open market. Canada could not sell wheat to countries receiving aid under the Marshall Plan, which was largely financed by the U.S., to rebuild war-ravaged Europe. There was an embargo against Canadian wheat in the U.S. and there had been no Canadian wheat sold outside the U.K. since 1941.
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