I attended the CWB meetings at Regina and Dauphin. At neither place was the Communist party officially represented.

It seems that the honourable Gerry Ritz has very little respect for truth and accuracy. In time immemorial there have been people who lusted and schemed for power, control and wealth.

The means used to acquire them were of little concern.

George E. Hickie,Waldron, Sask.

My many years as a resident of this Earth and always a keen observer of national politics have convinced me Conservatives, if given a majority in Ottawa, have proven to be the least respectful of others’ democratic rights.

In fact, they seem to think a majority gives them dictatorial rights to rule. Their interpretation of the word democracy seems to be, “if I don’t get my way, it isn’t democracy.”

They will not hesitate to force the desires of a minority on a majority and call it democracy. They are very comparable to the typical schoolyard bully.

George E. Hickie,Waldron, Sask.

They also claim that up to 17 percent of the world’s methane output comes from livestock, and that methane is 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in its greenhouse effects.

I will concede that my cows are guilty of belching, burping and flatulating. I do find it difficult to believe that livestock in any way contribute to the destruction of Mother Earth.

My cows’ ancestors and relatives have been on planet Earth for thousands of years and did what was natural for them to do. They grazed on grass and in the process expelled gaseous emissions from both ends.

During all this time, planet Earth did not sicken and die.

George E. Hickie,Waldron, Sask.

With over 50 years farming experience, I have had a little practice at this. Weather damage was not a serious factor. It should have graded a No. 2 milling and certainly no lower than No. 3 milling.

I took the samples to three grain buyers and they indicated bushel weight was to be 34 lb. per bushel and they stated that it might make a No. 4 milling but sample grade was a possibility.

In previous years this would have posed no problem, as I would have taken this sample to the Canadian Grain Commission office in Melville, who would have graded the sample and served the role of a neutral umpire with power and authority to make decisions when a grading dispute arose between a farmer and a grain buyer.

That option is no longer available to me as the federal government has closed down the Melville CGC outlet. In fact, I believe there are only two CGC offices left in Saskatchewan.

Grain producers have little choice but to deal with the few multinational grain traders that control open grain marketing on planet earth.

These powerful corporations adhere to no morality. They have no conscience and to them truth is irrelevant. Their main and overriding concern is to keep their shareholders happy, those who reap even though they do not sow.

Many years ago the CGC was created to protect farmers from these powerful, unethical grain corporations. We need the CGC more now than ever before.

George E. Hickie,Waldron, Sask.

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.

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