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Now that the CWB is changed, Stephen Harper says farmers who broke the law in the 1990s deserve to be pardoned
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to pardon some of the western farmers convicted of contravening Customs Act regulations in the 1990s is raising eyebrows. “Where does that stop?” Bob Roehle, a former CWB employee and member of Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board asked. “In a democracy, do I get to choose which laws IThe new CWB says it’s ready to compete in an open market and buoyed by a good crop, high prices and farmer support
The drama over the demise of the Canadian Wheat Board single desk showed no sign of abating last week as the new era of open grain marketing began. Prime Minister Stephen Harper told several hundred cheering farmers gathered at a farm near Kindersley, Sask. Aug. 1 farmers who ran the border to challenge the board’sOver the last 15 years, Canadian oat exports have dropped by 70 per cent as U.S. feed manufacturers switched to cheaper ingredients
Canadian farmers are urging American horse owners to ask feed makers, “Where’s the oats?” “What we have to do is convince the people who put the feed formula together to put the oats back into the formulation,” said Bill Wilton, president of the Prairie Oat Growers Association (POGA). Over the last 15 years, Canadian oat
