REGINA – Federal agriculture minister Ralph Goodale has unveiled the panel that will oversee a public review of the Canadian Wheat Board.
While consensus among all panel members is unlikely, its goal is to create a forum for a better understanding of the issues and to generate farmer debate, Goodale said at a Regina press conference introducing the panel members.
The panel chair is William Molloy, a Saskatoon lawyer and government land claims negotiator who chaired a royal commission on beef marketing in 1976.
The panel includes Bill Duke, a Redvers, Sask., farmer and a former president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers; Jack Gorr, an Alberta farmer and executive member of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers; James Liebfried, a former commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board; John Neufeld, director of Canadian operations for Archer Daniels Midland; former Alberta Wheat Pool chief executive officer Wally Madill; Keystone Agricultural Producers executive member and Manitoba farmer Owen McAuley; Alberta Wheat Pool and Prairie Pools Inc. executive John Pearson and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool former executive member Avery Sahl.
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The panel will begin hearings in January 1996, Goodale said.
It will be late spring or early summer 1996 before any report from the panel is likely.
