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**parsley** · Dec 4, 2011, 08:20

And some of you wonder why I condemn
government-legislated compulsory grain-checkoff
funding. We're headed like cattle, down this
same jailtime path after being tried by the
Goodale-hired StatsCanada/CWB-trained
lawyers. Pars

**FarmRanger** · Dec 4, 2011, 09:05

<i>"The Board's forced collectivization of Prairie grain is anathema in a free society." </i>

Sums it up pretty well. This sad chapter in Canadian history will soon be ending.

**fjlip** · Dec 4, 2011, 10:14

Links do not work.

**parsley** · Dec 4, 2011, 10:40

Paste them in. Backspace two clicks where the
gap is.

**charliep** · Dec 4, 2011, 11:09

If you have an Apple computer or an iPad (maybe some
of the others as well), make sure you grab the bottom
right corner of the posting area and stretch the area
you are typing in. If you don't, Safari (Apples internet
browswer) does some funny things with hard returns
and inserting spaces. Don't know why but does.

This post is from my home iMac and I have not
stretched it.

**charliep** · Dec 4, 2011, 11:32

Link for the last posting.

<a href=https://www.agriville.com/cgi-bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1036377106">farmers jailed</a>

Note to make this work, I grabbed the right corner of the posting area and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d the lines.

Why? Because I am sending from an Apple computer.

**charliep** · Dec 4, 2011, 12:13

Just to make me look silly.

[URL="https://www.agriville.com/cgi-bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1036377106"]try 2[/URL]

**fjlip** · Dec 4, 2011, 13:01

This quote sums everything up...

"As the law now stands, a farmer with a flour mill on his own property cannot grind his own wheat without first selling it to the Board, then buying it back at a punitive premium.

Correction: A Prairie farmer may not do so. Grain producers in Ontario, Quebec and the other regions of the country have been largely free to market their grain to the buyers of their choice for nearly a decade. Only on the Prairies do Ottawa and the Board insist on absolute control of the crops.

In June, the House of Commons agriculture committee called for farmers to be given the choice, by 2003, of deciding each spring whether to sell that season's harvest to the Board, or independently. The Alberta legislature, and several expert and quasi-judicial panels, have requested the same. But the Board and Ralph Goodale, the federal minister responsible for the Board, dismiss all such calls for modernization. They insist that if the more entrepreneurial farmers are permitted to market their own grain, then the prices available to the farmers who remain with the Board will be reduced.

Even if this rationalization were true -- the Board seldom makes public any of the proof it claims to have that so-called single-desk marketing benefits farmers -- it would be irrelevant. Farmers should be as free to market their product as Ontario car parts and Quebec aircraft manufacturers. The Board's forced collectivization of Prairie grain is anathema in a free society."

Thanks Ralph...

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