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   officer for Viterra Inc. and spent six years with Agricore United. Viterra itself has indicated that breaking the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly could be worth 50¢ to 75¢ of per share value to Viterra. Why is the government taking the fate and control of the Wheat Board away from

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   Board? Is that what he is trying to imply in the House? I ask the member to put it to the test. Section 47.1 under the legislation says we ought to that. The Wheat Board says that it has 62% support on its plebiscite. Why will the Conservatives not put it to the test? Why

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  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

House debate  . On Friday, questions about greenhouse gas emissions were met with a diatribe about shipbuilding, Supreme Court justices and the Wheat Board. We can and should be doing better in addressing the legitimate concerns of Canadians regarding environmental monitoring programs needed to protect

Business of Supply  , it was not one the government was willing to afford the producers most meaningfully impacted by its reckless decision to kill the single desk marketing and sales arm of the Canadian Wheat Board. More than the disenfranchisement of western wheat and barley growers, this is about

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, The Economist, to which I referred in my remarks, addresses that very issue. Small farms out west will cease to exist. This was confirmed by conversations I have had with farmers who are in favour of scrapping the Wheat Board. The average age of farmers is 58

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his comments that we should have a plebiscite. The difference is that there is no legislation surrounding the election of the Conservatives throughout Canada as he suggests. There is legislation. Section 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act

Business of Supply   the Wheat Board. However, what is also being exposed here is what they are planning on doing with the other marketing boards across the country, with the SM5. I think it will be blatantly clear what the United States, with its subsidized grains, will be doing with those SM5 marketing

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, our deepest concern is that at every trade negotiation the government will be asked to compromise and sacrifice the sanctity of supply management for the same reasons that it has been asked to dismantle the Wheat Board. It is only a matter of time before

Business of Supply   and said that they may have voted Conservative but that they did not vote Conservative for the purpose of dismantling the Wheat Board. I would remind the member that the word “wheat” did not show up in the Conservatives' platform during the election either.

Business of Supply  . It is designed that way in order to minimize competition so that there are not two Ford dealerships competing with each other, driving down their business margins. My question for my hon. colleague is, does he realize that the idea of the Wheat Board is so that small farmers get together

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it takes a great deal of courage for a member of the Conservative Party to stand up and ask why that party is not listening to farmers. There are prairie grain wheat farmers who have voted in a plebiscite to say that they want to retain the Canadian Wheat Board