Sorry to bump an old thread, did a search and this was the most recent one that it came up with
Canadian Wheat Board legislation to be passed by year-end
http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...261/story.html
Quote:
Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s 76-year-old marketing monopoly will be passed by the end of the year, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Monday
With a majority government, the Conservatives have vowed to remove the single-desk that requires prairie farmers to sell their wheat and barley to the board.
The wheat board argues that farmers should be consulted about any changes — Ritz says they gave their opinion when they elected the government — and points to a mail-in vote where 62 per cent of wheat farmers and 51 per cent of barley farmers wanted to keep the single-desk.
Ritz said in his announcement that western farmers will have choice in how their grain is marketed, who they sell it to, when they sell it and the price, as well as using either a voluntary wheat board or the private sector.
He wants the changes in place for the August 2012 crop year.
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I remember there was a debate about this on CP but I couldn't find the thread.