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Released on June 13, 2007
The Province of Saskatchewan is showing their support for the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board in their legal fight against the federal government over its handling of changes to the Board's single desk marketing authority.
The province is also exploring other options that it may be able to take to maintain the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) as a single-desk seller for western Canadian barley. On Monday, the federal government announced that CWB regulations have been amended to remove barley from the Board's marketing authority effective August 1, 2007.
"We have said all along that the federal government's spring plebiscite on barley marketing was flawed and undemocratic, and that producers were not given a fair say in the future of grain marketing through the Canadian Wheat Board," Agriculture and Food Minister Mark Wartman said. "We are standing with the majority of producers in Saskatchewan and western Canada, and are standing up for the Wheat Board. The Friends of the Wheat Board represent these producers and seek to protect their interests from this unjustifiable action by the federal government."
Bill Woods and Lyle Simonson, barley producers and members of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, met with Minister Wartman this morning.
"We're pleased that Minister Wartman took the time to meet with us, and we're also pleased that the Government of Saskatchewan is showing this kind of leadership on behalf of farmers," Simonson said. "A democratically controlled and operated CWB is important to all of us."
"Over the past ten years, every kernel of grain that I grew has been shipped out in producer cars," Woods said. "Without the Canadian Wheat Board, there would not have been any producer cars. After all of the farmer's hard work and investment in producer car loading facilities and short line railroads, it is absolutely shameful that by attacking the CWB, Minister Strahl is attacking producer car loading facilities, short line railways, and many rural communities."
The Friends of the Wheat Board consists of a non-partisan coalition of farmers and farm groups who believe farmers should decide the fate of the Wheat Board in a climate of informed debate without government interference. They maintain that amendments to the CWB regulations, which will see the board compete against multiple sellers, will result in a loss of premium for western Canadian barley producers.
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For more information, contact:
Scott Brown
Agriculture and Food
Regina
Phone: 306-787-4031
Email: sbrown@agr.gov.sk.ca
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