Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, open democracy allows for proper debate and differing opinions. First the Conservative government ignored the farmer-held plebiscite favouring the single desk, then it refused to hold its own plebiscite, then it limited debate in the House on Bill C-18 to three days.

Ending the Long-gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to participate in the debate. I must confess that in the last few weeks leading up to Halloween and after, I feel like I have been participating in some kind of revenge of the Reform Party performance. The Wheat Board is gone and the gun

Bill C-18 committee   that. I'm concerned about western Canadian grain farmers. They were denied a plebiscite. They had their own. It was ignored. We've had three days of debate and now three days of discussion that will affect something as iconic as the Wheat Board and obviously will dramatically affect

Bill C-18 committee  I'm sorry, but the reading of the legislation does not prescribe that. The intent isn't disclosed through the words that are used. It simply says you have to have the application approved by the minister. This is a board. This is an interim Wheat Board, which is supposed

Bill C-18 committee  I have to object to the question. The directors of the Canadian Wheat Board have a fiduciary duty to do everything they can within their power to keep that board alive in its current form. The kind of negativity that's being implied actually negates the obligations

Bill C-18 committee   on the rail service review, getting crops to their ultimate point of destination is going to be problematic. Gordon, you're kind of nodding your head right now confirming that. The clout that the Canada Wheat Board provides gives farmers the edge as far as most of us are concerned

Bill C-18 committee   appearing at that committee and elsewhere. They've expressed their concern that in the absence of action on the rail service review, getting crops around the prairies to their points of destination is very difficult as it is, and the clout that the Canadian Wheat Board provides gives

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise to submit a petition signed by western grain and barley farmers, from Alberta mainly, concerned with the government's ideological plan to kill the Canadian Wheat Board without first holding a plebiscite of its membership, as is required under section 47(1

Fair Representation Act   of Bill C-18 in order to permit the legislative committee to travel throughout Canadian Wheat Board designated areas in western Canada for the purpose of meeting with experts and farmers who would be affected by Bill C-18; and that in relation to its study of Bill C-18, the chair

Bill C-18 committee   Conservative who understood they would have an opportunity to vote under section 47.1 of the Wheat Board legislation?

Bill C-18 committee  I raised this yesterday. The witness has a fiduciary duty to protect the Wheat Board. He has to do everything within his power to keep the Wheat Board alive, and now he's being attacked for undertaking and doing the very things he's required to do by the legislation

Bill C-18 committee  I'm not talking about what the Wheat Board did, Mr. Vos.

Bill C-18 committee  , either in writing or verbally, if you quit at that point to be a director on the new voluntary wheat board?

Bill C-18 committee   Wheat Board unless a majority of producers voted for it. You told them that in what was described as a campaign-style speech. You know the quote from the Manitoba Co-operator: “Until farmers make that change, I’m not prepared to work arbitrarily”, said Ritz. “They are absolutely

Bill C-18 committee   to a voluntary wheat board so that this the board can be by farmers for farmers? Second, yes or no, will you allow the removal of that clause requiring the approval of the farmers' applications through your department, so that farmers can be like any other Canadian and have the freedom to go