Gerry Ritz ignored experts advice and created this entire mess. Farmers demand that he step down and the government reverse the decision to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board.
“Nobody, least of all farmers, are being fooled by Minister Ritz’s claim he is considering all options for fixing the multi-billion dollar wreck he created.”
“It is time to give farmers back democratic control of their grain marketing, since the private trade has failed completely. The best remedy is to reverse the destruction of the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).”
Minister needs to put single desk option on the grain transportation table
(Pelly, Sk., February 26, 2014) Farmers facing huge cuts in grain prices, long delivery delays, and cash flow problems as they prepare for spring seeding find the response of the Federal and Provincial Agriculture Ministers to the grain crisis pathetic, observed Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance, a prairie wide organization representing grain farmers.
“Nobody, least of all farmers, are being fooled by Minister Ritz’s claim he is considering all options for fixing the multi-billion dollar wreck he created” said Korneychuk from his Pelly area wheat farm. “It is time to give farmers back democratic control of their grain marketing, since the private trade has failed completely. The best remedy is to reverse the destruction of the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board (CWB)” Korneychuk observed.
Korneychuk dismissed the suggestion that the railways are now prepared to negotiate and sign level of service agreements with grain shippers. “There is nothing new in this, the CWB did this all the time” Korneychuk said. “However, the inland terminals don’t have the same negotiating power with the railways simply because their terminals are mostly captive to one or the other of the railways. In any event, the terminals simply recover any extra costs imposed by the railways from the price they pay farmers.” The government, Korneychuk said, has destroyed the only organization (the CWB) willing to take the railways to court over level of service.
http://www.cwbafacts.ca/2014/02/ministers-response-to-grain-crisis-pathetic/
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