The Canadian Wheat Board

There was a large rally of farmers today at the Canadian Wheat Board on Main Street in Winnipeg. Farmers want democracy. Farmers want to be able to run the Canadian Wheat Board and to determine its future without being dictated to by Stephen Harper, Chuck Strahl the federal Conservative government, and their provincial Conservative allies.

The farmers are right. Farmers elect the majority of the Board members of the Canadian Wheat Board. Farmers should have the right to decide the future of the Canadian Wheat Board. At the recent vote to elect board members for the Canadian Wheat Board the results were very clear. The majority of farmers still want a single desk selling capability for the Canadian Wheat Board. The majority of farmers still want to have the market power and the muscle of a strong Canadian Wheat Board working for them.

I was there to listen to and to support the farmers who came to the rally.