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Liberals Step Up Gun Registry Pressure – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Alex Binkley September 16, 2010

With the Commons heading toward a Sept. 22 shootout over Conservative plans to scrap the long-gun registry, the Liberals are stepping up the pressure to reform it instead. Liberal MP Frank Valeriote of Guelph, one of the party’s leading MPs on the Commons agriculture committee, didn’t mince words objecting to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unbending

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Easter Critical Of Leaders For Not Defending Members

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2009

Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter says the leadership within Canada’s hog and cattle industries isn’t doing enough to defend producers from inadequate government action. “For the life of me I don’t know why the hog and beef industry isn’t standing up for themselves,” the Prince Edward Island MP told the 40th annual meeting of the

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Tories Balk At Backing CWB At WTO: NDP

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 12, 2009

The federal NDP’s international trade critic says the Conservatives’ refusal to back a motion of support for supply management and the Canadian Wheat Board shows they can’t be trusted to protect either at the WTO. Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian moved at a Nov. 3 meeting of the House of Commons’ standing committee on international

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Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

“The key here is that this hoist motion actually kills the bill before it even has a chance to make it to committee.” – PIERRE LEMIEUX Opposition parties employed a rarely used parliamentary tactic to effectively kill the federal government’s proposed legislation amending the Canada Grain Act last week. Just as the government was preparing

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Government bailouts bypass livestock producers

By Paul Beingessner January 1, 2009

Cattle and hog producers watching the growing list of industries slated for infusions of cash by the Canadian government must be wondering what they have to do to convince politicians their industry’s worth. In addition to promising aid to the Canadian auto and aerospace industries, Canada’s free enterprise government is now talking about assistance for

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Election changes little on farm scene

By Alex Binkley October 23, 2008

The Conservative win in the Oct. 14 election brought little change to the farm scene in Parliament. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was re-elected with a comfortable margin in his western Saskatchewan riding, despite the national flap over his “cold cuts” comments. Ritz’s main critics, Liberal Wayne Easter and the NDP’s Alex Atamanenko, also won in

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Liberals Step Up Gun Registry Pressure – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Tories Balk At Backing CWB At WTO: NDP

Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

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Election changes little on farm scene

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