Farmers paid for the Canadian Wheat Board’s assets and deserve to be compensated for their seizure, the authors maintain.  |  File photo

Feds must compensate for CWB assets

We are the four representative plaintiffs named in the class action lawsuit seeking to recover $17 billion in damages on behalf of western Canadian wheat and barley farmers stemming from the federal decision to end the Canadian Wheat Board. After assessing the Federal Court’s ruling on the government’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit, this is […] Read more

Voting a must

The present government’s fact-finding panel designed to determine whether the Canadian Wheat Board could survive in a dual marketing environment, and commissioned by this same government’s former ag minister, reported strongly that the CWB could not survive. Without the CWB we will go from one seller (our CWB) and hundreds of buyers in 70 countries […] Read more