Dear Editor;
A lesson about Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) democracy by M.P. David Anderson and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Legislation has been introduced to prevent small grain producers (delivering less than 40 tonnes to the CWB) from voting in board elections. Mr. Anderson describes this as putting farmers first. But, the irony is very large farmers that never deliver any board grains to the CWB would be still eligible to receive a voting ballot. Anderson and Harper say they want only ‘real’ farmers voting in Board elections.
I think that means they only want open marketers voting in CWB elections. That’s what David Anderson calls making the Board more accountable.
Why does this legislation, coming from the right-wing Harper government not surprise me?
Henry Neufeld
Waldeck, Sask.