20 Replies to “Didn’t There Used To Be An Ontario Wheat Board?”

  2. Flood EVERY federal MP’s (Conservative, Liberal, NDP) e-mail inbox with this cartoon.
    And yes…the whisperings that if the CWB is dismantled that the dairy quota will go next are true. I always assummed that it was the Liberals, that hide almongst us, spreading that spewage.
    A couple of years ago the wheat, corn and soy boards merged in Ontario to form a new organization called Grain Farmers of Ontario.
    Elevator fees at the time of merger were .80 cents a tonne to fund the various boards at the time…now it is 1.60$.

  3. The CWB and the supply managed commodities are not linked – I.e if one goes the other will follow because the first one went. Supply management is doomed because at some point the GATT will outlaw it (it very nearly did in the Doha round). The CWB is seen by most outside of Canada as at worst a neutral – not an advantage nor a disadvantage for CDN producers and exporters thus it is not an issue at the GATT as it does not include charging tariffs on imports of board grains.
    So if there are whisperings, it is hard to see them as having any traction with supply managed producers.

  4. The Dairy and Egg marketing scams should be gone too.
    Friking people picking and choosing their scams to hose the buyers…

  6. A Liberal government will never ever change the CWB…they won’t even so much as talk about it. The only hope for Western producers is the Conservatives.
    The Liberals use the whisperings of dismantling the CWB to cost the Conservatives votes at the ballot box…the cost of production quotas for supply management is hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and the thought of anything happening to “their” quota sends people into a rabid tizzy to protect it. Even if it means selling fellow Canadian farmers down the river in doing so.

  7. All Ritz and Harper have to do is give western farmers free export permits and it is all over in 10 minutes.
    However, THEY HAVE NO BALLS !

  8. Sid….Harper DOES have balls,it’s just that they have gone to his brain and mastized(sp?)Oh wait.Harper’s brain? Yeah,it’s called his wife.We voted the wrong person in!!!

  9. Nice video Kate – what a predicament Canadians are in! I do business in a town close to Sault Ste Marie Canada. I always wondered why the milk prices were so high in Canada. The border USA stores sell milk to Canadians like it is going out of style. Now it makes sense.

  11. Regarding the Ontario Wheat Board; several years ago wheat growers received permission to sell off board. The Board continued in a scaled back version. 2 years ago the Corn, Soybean and Wheat Boards amalgamated into Grain Farmers of Ontario. After a producer vote of all things.

  12. Owning milk quaota and faced with the prospect of it becoming extinct, at the stroke of a pen, is like the prospect of the municipality forcing you to connect to municiple water and sewage, then filling your $20,000 well with cement…. after the same entity forced you to invest in that well to obtain your building permit.

  13. The CPC faces the same quandary when it comes to Immigration. Canada does not need immigration, yet we bring in 300,000 new people every year. Read this letter I received today in the mail.
    http://policystudies.ca/component/content/article/392-immigration-reform-letter
    Vancouver has at least 6 parliamentary seats dependent on the Sikh vote and Toronto has 9 dependent on the Muslim one, more than enough to hold the balance of power in almost any Parliament.

  14. I always see the Wheat board as Ottawa’s NEP against Saskatchewan. Only slower.
    JMO

  15. Here in Arizona, one gallon of milk is $1.59 at Safeway and ………..quite cheap…No Milk Marketing boards here

  16. Regarding voting. Here in Ontario I have family and friends who have either dairy cows, chicken or egg layers which means they will own quota. My bet is that at least 95 per cent of those folks will NEVER ever vote for the Conservative Party as long as they own that quota no matter what anyone says. This I am quite sure will be the same in Quebec.

  17. Like Kate says, pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends. The CPC has yet to figure this out.

  19. We used to have agricultural marketing boards like this in Britain too. They were given statutory powers in the Thirties when commodity prices were on the floor and were strengthened and increased during the war to boost food production.
    I grew up under this system and some of them did not work too badly. In the post war period there were no import duties on foods, so they did not have things all their own way. We used to get excellent Canadian wheat, American Corn, New Zealand milk powder and lamb , Australian wool etc.
    The EU disrupted this trade and also made such marketing boards illegal. The Milk Marketing Board was one of the most successful and was reborn as a co-operative , Milk Marque. The new firms coming into the milk market initially offered higher prices to farmers to get them away from Milk Marque but then pushed the farm prices down ruthlessly to below the cost of production. SO I can understand why the Quebec farmers want to hold on to theirs.
    There were once also marketing boards for eggs, potatoes, etc but never for grain.

  20. The court case talked about in the video can be found here.
    http://decisions.fca-caf.gc.ca/en/2009/2009fca214/2009fca214.html
    here is one of the more relevent quotes
    [47] Turning to the first step, subsection 18(1) is very broad. As noted, it authorizes the government, through the auspices of the Governor in Council, to direct the Wheat Board with respect to the full range of activity conducted by the Wheat Board.

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