This is in response to the allegations by Bob Thomas that the Bengough Rally Group Inc. has been operating outside the rules and regulations of The Non-Profit Corporations Act.
The Bengough Rally Group Inc. has always acted in good faith and has attempted to ensure it acted in accordance with applicable legislation.
All actions by the Bengough Rally Group have been taken following a meeting of the Board of Directors and a majority vote. If any conduct by the group did not conform entirely with The Non-Profit Corporations Act, that conduct would have occurred prior to the resignation of Bob Thomas.
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Since the resignation of Bob Thomas, the Bengough Rally Group has retained legal counsel to review their incorporation documents and to ensure that the current board and all future conduct is in accordance with The Non-Profit Corporations Act.
The Bengough Rally Group understands that its current board of directors is properly constituted and, at present, the Group is in compliance with the act.
The Group wishes to organize its corporate affairs before it holds a full membership meeting. The corporation has 18 months from the date of incorporation before the Act requires it to hold a membership meeting.
We will continue our fight for the family farm and rural communities.
– Sharon Nicholson,
Big Beaver, Sask.
Feds responsibility
To the Editor:
The results of the Saskatch-ewan election are a protest against the government in power, which happened to be Mr. Romanow. Farmers unfairly blamed Mr. Upshall and Mr. Romanow for the disastrously low grain prices.
I agree with Upshall and Romanow when they say that Saskatchewan taxpayers cannot afford to go head-to-head with the federal treasuries of the Europeans and the U.S. in an all-out grain subsidy war.
In the last few days before the election, Mr. Hermanson and Mr. Melenchuk seemed to finally agree that indeed it was not possible. Therefore, they would not put Saskatchewan taxpayers into the subsidy war. No other province in Canada has done so. It is the responsibility of the Federal Liberal government.
The Federal Government has made reductions in support for agriculture that have contributed to the shortfall in farm income.
Extra costs have been imposed yearly on Saskatchewan farmers caused by the loss of the Crow benefit of over $400 million and the loss of Federal safety net programs amounting to $600 million for a total of $1 billion yearly.
Other services that were originally provided by the Federal Government such as the food inspection agency, marine service fees, pest management, hopper car leases and the Canadian Grain Commission (amounting to $100 million yearly) are now paid by farmers.
While Mr. Hermanson was a Reform MP in Ottawa, he supported the removal of all subsidies. I appeal to farmers: let us put the blame where it belongs. Salvation is not in the election of Mr. Hermanson.
– Fred Harrison,
Melville, Sask.
Focus on past
To the Editor:
Just a couple of comments regarding your Sept. 23 issue. The first is by a chap from Taber, Alta. … While I won’t deal with all of his drivel, I do want to, in regard to his contention that farmers are not really the ones that feed the world, but rather such as he, and his truck driver contemporaries who move the rigs around that drill the oil and gas wells, that provide the energy with which farmers grow the food. …
How does he suggest … that was accomplished before the advent of oil power? As one nearing my 85th birthday, all of them on a farm, I recall many years of food production without mechanical power, and in fact it was more satisfying and stress lacking than the madhouse we now are in.
The second point has to do with your editorial coverage of the election just past, in which you suggest it is time to turn the page and get on with getting things right, and not pointing at past mistakes. While I can go along with most of that, I disagree with that last point. The fact that some of those mistakes are extracting $2 million a day in interest, that is $700 million a year, that was bequeathed to us by a former government, which in an annual budget of $5.7 billion, comes to $1 in every eight…
Some things must be focused on constantly, we can see how short our memories are when we so blithely put our faith in a group, who are made up of four disillusioned, first-time Liberals teamed up with four Tory refugees fleeing the smell of the Devine disaster, led by a so-far untested defeated Reformer.
Let’s not get carried away with some quick-fix patent medicine man.
– Philip Lindenback,
Weekes, Sask.
