Mr. Speaker, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool is to close 235 elevators at 170 prairie delivery points.
The producer members who paid for these elevators will not be given the opportunity to buy them. As soon as the bins are empty, the bulldozers will move in and these elevators will be gone. As a bit of collateral damage, a lot of villages will lose a third of their tax base.
Will the government just once do something proactive for the benefit of farmers and put a moratorium on the destruction of these valuable facilities?