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Tories Tap Farmers For CWB Committee

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The Conservatives have tapped their Prairie bench strength to serve on a special legislative committee that will review the bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly over wheat and barley sales. There was nearly endless political jockeying over the bill, with NDP MP Pat Martin charging it was a conflict of interest for
Cereals, News

Conservatives Pull Out All Stops To Ram CWB Bill Into Law

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CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA The Conservatives have the legislation to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its wheat and barley monopoly on a forced march through Parliament. Second reading debate began Oct. 19 and was set to conclude Oct. 24 as theCo-operatorwas going to press. The government will use its majority to give the bill
Cereals, News

Friends Of Canadian Wheat Board’s Day In Court Dec. 6

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The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) and federal government square off in Federal Court Dec. 6. in Edmonton, although there s a chance the case will be heard in Winnipeg. The FCWB, a coalition of farmers and other Canadians in support of a democratic, farmer-controlled wheat board, wants the court to rule Ottawa
Cereals, News

FCWB’s Court Case Continues

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Legal action to force Ottawa to hold a plebiscite on whether to keep or end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk will be heard in Federal Court. On Sept. 9 a Federal Court prothonotary rejected the federal government s application to dismiss the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board s (FCWB) application filed
Crops

Tories Demand Agriculture Committee Meet

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The Progressive Conservative opposition is demanding the government activate a dormant legislative committee to map out future directions for farming in Manitoba. The Tories say they want the standing committee on agriculture and food, which hasn’t met for over a year and a half, to get together and develop plans for the industry. “We need
Cereals, Crops

CGC Bill Among Casualties Of Prorogue

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Controversial legislation to overhaul the Canadian Grain Commission was among the legislation wiped out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue the current session of Parliament. The bill faced a bumpy ride through Parliament from the opposition parties, even if Harper does fill Senate vacancies with Conservative supporters. Introduced last spring, the bill was
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Tories Accused Of Stalling On SRM Subsidy

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Conservative members on the House of Commons agricultural committee are being accused of obstruction in blocking a recommendation for financial aid to Canada’s cattle processors. In a December 11 letter to the beef industry, opposition committee members accused Tory members of repeatedly preventing a vote on a motion to recommend subsidizing the slaughter of older
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Listeria Committee Back In Gear

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Government and opposition MPs on a special Commons subcommittee investigating last summer’s listeria outbreak have ironed out their differences and will begin questioning witnesses in late April. The first meeting of the subcommittee turned into a two-hour quarrel when NDP MP Malcolm Allen proposed an extension of the committee’s investigation to the end of the
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Food Safety Study Snarled

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A Commons subcommittee set up to examine last year’s listeria outbreak and the state of food safety in Canada choked on a large helping of politics during its first meeting March 25. The formation of the subcommittee was agreed to more than a month ago by the Commons agriculture committee fuelled by the opposition’s apprehension
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MPs To Probe Listeria Outbreak

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The Commons agriculture committee has agreed to establish an inquiry into last summers listeria outbreak that killed 20 and sickened more than 50 others. A motion by NDP Farm Critic Alex Atamanenko to launch the inquiry was backed by the other parties including the Conservatives after it was broadened to include an examination of how

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