So the Conservative MPs are at it again. Just like they did two years ago, during the last round of wheat board director elections, they’re using our money to tell us how we should vote. Somehow they’ve gotten a voters’ list and they’re subtly sending every farmer in their constituency a pamphlet that tells us what they think of the wheat board, as if we didn’t know by now, and that encourages us to vote like they would.
Funny, isn’t it? They’d have us believe that we don’t have any say in the matter, that the wheat board is some socialist leftover that’s being shoved on our plate. Yet, after four years in power, they still haven’t been able to take down the single desk on their own. So more and more, they’re resorting to asking us to do it for them through the director elections.
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At last month’s Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan Policy Summit, various industry heads brought forward ideas that they wanted producers to consider for the agriculture sector’s Next Policy Framework .
If they believed in true democracy, they would let farmers decide.
George E. Hickie,
Waldron, Sask.
Maybe it’s about time they acknowledge publicly what they’re evidently thinking behind closed doors: the wheat board director elections do
