The Alberta Barley Commission will be back in court again in a final attempt to get the courts to rule that the Canadian Wheat Board restricts farmers’ ability to market their grain.
The Federal Court of Appeal has set a hearing date for the 1997 court challenge based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It has been seven years since the commission and 21 individual farmers filed a statement of claim with the Federal Court. It took another three years for the case to be heard in court and another six months for Justice Francis Muldoon to uphold the Canadian Wheat Board Act as valid and dismiss the charter challenge.
Believing the decision was flawed, the commission filed an appeal immediately.
It is scheduled to be heard in the Federal Court’s Calgary courtroom May 1-2.
The charter challenge has cost the commission almost $2 million.
