Here are some of the things that Wayne Easter had to say:
Chuck Strahl still doesn't understand what study after study, including his own discredited task force on undermining the wheat board, have said - namely that there is no such thing as dual marketing. It is either the open market or single desk!
This puzzles me. It puzzles me because I am pretty sure that Ontario lies somewhere between PEI and Western Canada. I would think that Wayne Easter, sitting in PEI, could see that Ontario has a marketing board for wheat that operates on a voluntary basis, a 'dual market' if you will.
The release also comments on who should be voting in the plebiscite:
The Minister must respect the fact that permit book holders should be those eligible to vote.
Wayne, you so crazy! You expect me to believe that our farm which grows ten of thousands of bushels of board grains while holding a single permit book should receive the same vote as the retired farmer who hasn't delivered a bushel in years? Or worse yet, the same vote as the estate of someone who owns a quarter section? Yes, it appears that Wayne Easter believes that bonafide farmers should have the same vote as dead people.
In opposition, let me put forward the simple idea that growing barley, not holding a book, should be the eligibility criterion.
Finally, this nugget:
This Minister has a track record of using threats, tampering with voter lists, and firing CWB officials who have defended the CWB from the Conservatives' attempts to destroy it to fit their ideological agenda. Western grain producers deserve better.
Wow. Partisanship, thy name is Wayne Easter. If ever an 'ideological agenda' existed, it belongs to single-desk supporters such as Mr. Easter. It takes a great degree of confidence in the ideology of collective marketing to suggest that all farmers be forced to market collectively. It takes even more gall to suggest that only farmers in another area, not a single one represented in parliament by Wayne Easter, be the ones forced into a system of collective marketing. If only I could move my farm to PEI the same way Wayne Easter moves his ideology west.
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Do as I say, not as I do. That is the motto of the Easterbunny
Since you brought up Easter's spinning of things, I thought you might like to see what another independent agri-food think tank viewed his spin to be, too.
Trying to make the CWB seem on the same level as the supply managed egg, poutry, and dairy segment, is another way the opposition tries to confuse (and scare), people.
http://www.georgemorris.org/aspx/Public/Utils/DbFileViewerPopup.aspx?FileID=215
This next site offers a good number of links (lower right side), that shows how different the CWB structure, and the marketing boards really are, and what the consumer might like to know:
http://www.dairyplanet.ca/home3.html
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