Veteran University of Regina political analyst and provincial civil servant Howard Leeson has a succinct response about the impact of the May 2 election of a majority federal Conservative government.
“If I was a Canadian Wheat Board director, I’d be packing my bags,” he said when the election results were clear.
The Conservatives won a 167 seat majority in the House of Commons with strong support from across the rural Prairies with victories in all rural ridings with CWB farmers.
The Conservative platform promised to work with prairie farmers to end the monopoly on barley sales. Rural Conservatives told voters the promise will apply to wheat as well, although there will be no dramatic move.
