(Agriculture minister) Gerry Ritz doesn’t understand the wishes of western farmers that do not want to give up the Canadian Wheat Board in favour of an open market system that the U.S. and Australia have at the present time.
There never was support for the “open market” candidates even though they may have had resources from taxpayers and corporations to win the CWB elections.
Some farmers today sell their grain production to pork, cattle operations and feed mills, etc. There are no regulations for any farmer that states he/ she must sell only to the CWB.
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There are no more public farmer meetings where farmers can discuss the problems in farm policies.
Gerry Ritz only works with the media, makes all the changes in farm policies without real input from farmers and we as farmers cannot change his mind.
Farmers have been divided too many times by the Tory government over the past five years.
The CWB is the last organization that farmers have with any rules or regulations left, that treats all farmers equally.
It’s beneficial for young and other farmers to know that all sales money made on their product will be returned to them and not the “shareholders.’
It’s time voters in Gerry Ritz’s constituency defeated him in the next federal election and let him go back to his ostrich farm – full time.
Eric Sagan,Melville, Sask.
