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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

Opinion

Small Farmers Denied Vote

June 17, 2010

Legislation has been introduced to prevent small grain producers (delivering less than 40 tonnes to the CWB) from voting in board elections. MP David Anderson describes this as putting farmers first. The irony is very large farmers who never deliver any board grains to the CWB would still be eligible to receive a voting ballot.

Cereals, Crops

CGC Bill Among Casualties Of Prorogue

By Alex Binkley January 14, 2010

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

Cereals, Opinion

People Before Politics: Harper Has Failed To Deliver

By Wayne Easter April 2, 2009

For the past three years, the Harper government has been criss-crossing the country making announcement after announcement, promise after promise to Canadian farmers. Big commitments were made to help with things like cost of production, to help build processing capacity and to help farmers create practical programs on the ground. Unfor tunately, Stephen Harper and

Cereals, Opinion

The system works

By Laura Rance-Unger December 11, 2008

Step away from the hollering last week – both in and outside of the House of Commons – for just a minute. Block out the images of television journalists shivering in the damp Ottawa cold trying to find words to fill the minute-by-minute live coverage, the murky handycam footage of an Opposition leader who can’t

Cereals, Opinion

Smart thinking

December 4, 2008

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR At first glance, it’s beyond bizarre. Members of Parliament, at public expense, sending letters to constituents recommending how to vote in a Canadian Wheat Board director election (see page ). What were they thinking? A recent “blog” by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver provides a possible explanation. He says the

Cereals, Opinion

CWB vote may be farmers’ most democratic option

By John Beckham November 13, 2008

Since the CWB is a creature of the Liberal party, in Stephen Harper’s world, it must be destroyed. It has nothing to do with freedom of choice. With a stronger minority Stephen Harper promised in his victory speech to carry out his commitments. One of those is the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board. He

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

Small Farmers Denied Vote

CGC Bill Among Casualties Of Prorogue

People Before Politics: Harper Has Failed To Deliver

The system works

Smart thinking

CWB vote may be farmers’ most democratic option

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