Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, Conservative MP after Conservative MP talks about the reduction in average acres and they try to blame the Canadian Wheat Board. As in many other things, they have absolutely no evidence, not a shred, to demonstrate that is the case. If anything, the CWB

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, the government is going out of its way to claim that this bill is all about freedom. My colleague made reference to how critical the supply management system is, much in the same way as the Canadian Wheat Board is. It protects industries in many different ways

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   United States has remained the same. That has been with a board of directors of farmers in place. The act, under section 12, says: Every person holding office as an elected director of the Canadian Wheat Board immediately before the day on which this Part comes into force ceases

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The minister made that comment the other day. The Wheat Board reports in an annual report every year. The board has said itself that it has reported. Why does that member, his minister and the parliamentary secretary continue

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   profits because they are going sell the wheat for more: they are going to make them because they will be taking the profits from the farmers. In fact, Viterra's shares spiked when Canadians found out that the Wheat Board would be gone shortly. Alliance Grain Traders is suddenly going

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  , obviously with speaking notes from the PMO, stood and talked about the fact that the Canadian Wheat Board was designed in 1943 and that there have been no changes since. Yes, there were. In 1997, the board was changed to include 10 farmer elected directors, time at a time

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   it is heralding the opportunities that dismantling Wheat Board would give large Canadian and international grain companies which would now be sucking the profits out of farmers out west and keeping them for themselves and their shareholders. I wonder if the member for Malpeque would express

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   by the government's decision, should have the ability to have some input as to what the government is doing today? Would he support prairie farmers being able to have direct influence on what is happening with the Wheat Board?

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   on a participation rate of about 56%. In the case of wheat, as I understand it, 62% of those who responded said that they would like to keep the single desk Canadian Wheat Board as is. For those 62%, on the assumption that is correct, what would my colleague say to those 62%, assuming

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   as soon say to keep the Wheat Board and go from there.

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives thought they could get away with their anti-democratic attack on western Canadian family farms with no fuss. Funny how people react when the government ignores them. Protests against the Conservative plan to kill the single desk system by farmers t

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   of the Wheat Board who have admitted to me that thousands of farms will close because there are farmers who are past the average age of 50 who will not be able to withstand the transition. As a consequence, those small farms will close. Small economies in rural areas of the western

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   producer, but devastating small prairie towns, whose economies depend on individual farmers with disposable income. There is a valid argument to be made that the government, by killing the Wheat Board, is going to be destroying family farms, that it is going to be making it that much

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   as well as a number of other agencies that research and work on new plant varieties and in some cases attempt to resurrect historic varieties such as the one the hon. gentleman referred to. It is an integrated system. All of the pieces fit together. The Canadian Wheat Board has been

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, would the member reflect on what the prairie farmers have to say? Time after time Conservative members of Parliament have said the farmers want to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board. However, 62% of prairie grain farmers actually want to keep it. That is the vast