Grain Transport   of the comments tonight have been against the railways, but the fact of the matter is that the railways, in the port of Vancouver, now have to break up their cars and actually move the cars, whereas previously with the wheat board they were able to move a paper allocation between companies

Grain Transport   together. We see what has failed with the government getting rid of all of this. Now it has tried to put it back onto the unions or the Wheat Board. My question goes more to the act the minister put forward last year that failed. The NDP alluded to it. I would ask the member what kind

Grain Transport  Mr. Speaker, the member for Welland talked a fair bit about the railways being part of the problem, but is there not another huge problem, and that is the grain companies? Grain used to be shipped as Canadian Wheat Board grain and could move around Vancouver by a paper

Grain Transport   recommendations about open access, which I found to be quite an intriguing idea. The member will remember that the Estey report was an integrated set of recommendations that included removing the Canadian Wheat Board from the logistics of grain handling and transportation. I wonder if my

Grain Transport  ; Heimbecker put in an order for 800 cars last week and they got zero. Roughly 4,500 cars are supposed to be allocated every week, and that was zero. It used to be that the Canadian Wheat Board allocated the cars and took some control over the railway and the grain companies. My question

Grain Transport  Mr. Speaker, the member hit the nail on the head about how the Conservatives dropped the ball on this. We see it even at the Vancouver port. The wheat board used to have a way of controlling where all the cars were going. The grain industry is vitally important not only

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, witnesses. One of the concerns with some of the agencies, and not only your own, not only CBC, was that when the government applied access to information to them--the Canadian Wheat Board is another one.... There are certain people out

Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   Board which consumed debate time and ultimately hurt prairie farmers. There was the bill on increasing the size of the House of Commons. Those bills seemed to have higher priority, a bill to have more politicians and a bill to kill the Wheat Board, than this bill. Could the member

Agriculture committee  Michael, I want to thank you for your candour, particularly on a farmer-owned new Canadian Wheat Board, as opposed to five directors appointed by the minister. We recommended that at the committee examining the legislation, and it was declined. Hopefully somebody will see

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, because the Federal Court has ruled with respect to the Wheat Board question that the minister acted outside the framework of the law, I wonder if the government could tell us why it is proceeding with the legislation in the Senate when the matter is now back before

Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   about the additional fees on products going by sea and air into the United States, and he surprised and disappointed us. Against the rule of law and undermining democracy, the Canadian government is trying to do away with the Canadian Wheat Board, and the bill may pass through

Canadian Wheat Board  ”. It is rather surprising that that needs to be written down but it is good to hear. A court of competent jurisdiction has ruled that the conduct of the Minister of Agriculture is “an affront to the rule of law”. Therefore, the minister has violated the Canadian Wheat Board Act and he has

Canadian Wheat Board  To the Prime Minister through you, Mr. Speaker, could I ask how it is that the government's intention is to proceed with the Wheat Board law and to ask the Governor General to give royal assent to the law when the court in question has said that the minister's conduct

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, in light of the judge's decision in Manitoba with respect to the Wheat Board, in which it states clearly the minister will be held accountable for his disregard for the rule of law, I wonder if the government can give us at least the assurance that the legislation

Agriculture committee   offensive. It is about the Wheat Board and the $200 million cap. There are a lot of people, including Stephen Vandervalk, who are plenty angry about this. From our perspective, and you can deny it, it's being used to fund the eventual liabilities for transitioning the Wheat Board. I see