There is a glorious story, truth or fiction, that has been handed down through generations of farmers’ union members about a former federal agriculture minister. | by Barry Wilson, Ottawa bureau
NOW: He is the reigning king of tenure in the agriculture ministry: 22 years from 1935 to 1957. Jimmy Gardiner, a member of the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame, is credited by historians as an important architect of modern federal agriculture policy and, in a 1997 Agriculture Canada booklet on agriculture ministers, for having expanded […] Read moreTrending
