Is the Harper government willing to dismantle the supply management system that protects poultry and dairy farmers from competition? You should bet that it is.
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Wheat Board Stacks the Deck in Effort to Retain its Monopoly
The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is using old tricks to justify its monopoly over prairie wheat and barley sales. The board is conducting a mail-in plebiscite among western farmers that is rigged to give it the result it wants – namely the appearance of widespread support for its “single-desk” marketing of all wheat and barley harvested for human consumption.
Media Release – Prosperity Ahead Without Canadian Wheat Board Monopoly
This study looks ahead and assesses possible consequence scenarios to the eventuality that the Canadian Wheat Board is removed in 2012 as many expect.
Removal of the Canadian Wheat Board Monopoly: Future Changes for Farmers and the Grain Industry
This study looks ahead and assesses possible consequence scenarios to the eventuality that the Canadian Wheat Board is removed in 2012 as many expect.
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Media Release – More Jobs and Better Taxi Service
Market failure, regulatory failure, and how to make taxi markets function for more jobs and better service.
Something Rotten in the State of Winnipeg Taxi Market
After the disappointment of the Winnipeg Taxi Study, Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour takes a more imaginative look at the results of taxi deregulation in other countries.
Canada’s Wheat Cult
The CWB has become as much an economic cult as a Crown marketing agency. So it is never going to admit it is a drag on farmers or the West. But at some point taxpayers have to wake up to the fact that they are subsidizing Western farmers to the tune of $1-billion or more a year and they wouldn’t have to if the federal government would simply make marketing grain through the board optional, rather than compulsory.
Canadian Interests Divided at Global Trade Talks
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud told reporters last week he’s concerned that Canada’s refusal to make concessions on supply management could hurt western Canadian interests.
Too Chicken to End Supply-Managed Agriculture
Canada’s politicians continue to be scared of a small rump of highly organized farmers whose government sanctioned cartel directly harms the interests of most farmers, all consumers and manufacturers.
Killing the Golden Goose
We tend to judge this year’s food crisis, marked by seemingly indomitable prices, from the point of view of those who are suffering. It might be useful to judge the crisis also from the point of view of those who are causing it. That’s where the real lessons will be...
The World Food Summit: Canada is part of the problem
The food-crisis summit that was held in Rome by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week reminds us that the protectionist policies of the industrialized countries are having harmful consequences on the well-being of the world population. Canada, the world’s fourth-largest exporter and fifth-largest importer of agricultural products, must show its goodwill by reforming some of its programs that harm trade.
It’s A Fight To Keep Fishing
Like every fish story, there is the one that got away — now these fishers are refusing to “bush” pickerel and want to sell it on the open market, which is offering a huge dollar these days.
Why Planned Integration of Land Use and Transport will Not Achieve its Goals.
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