Strahl is the federal minister of agriculture and minister for the Canadian Wheat Board. Western farmers have been calling on the federal government to remove the monopoly on barley and barley products from the Canadian Wheat Board for a long time. In fact, 62 percent of barley growers want the freedom to market barley in […] Read more
Stories by Chuck Strahl
Majority wants changes to CWB – Opinion
Strahl is the federal agriculture minister and minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board. The opinion piece in your April 26 edition (Harper government wages war on CWB, by Albert Horner and David Orchard) was inaccurate and misleading. It unfairly painted a negative picture of the Conservative government’s actions to live up to its commitment […] Read more
A WTO agriculture trade deal: What’s in it for Canada? – Opinion
Strahl is Minister of Agriculture and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board. IF World Trade Organization members can finalize a trade agreement by the end of this year, Canada’s agriculture and agri-food exporters will have plenty to gain. They get badly bruised by unfair agricultural subsidies and high tariffs, particularly in the United States and […] Read more
