The board’s claim that by gathering together all prairie grain and selling it in bulk it will achieve a higher price is a myth, because even though it controls the output of around 60,000 farmers, it nonetheless still controls too little grain to push the price up by withholding wheat and barley from the market, then rushing it to the selling floor.
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Where’s The Outrage Over High Milk Prices?
To realize how truly peculiar our milk thinking is, consider another crucial liquid in Canadians’ lives, this one black. When world oil prices fall and their decline is not instantaneously reflected at your local gas pump, the media, the man in the street and Liberal MP Dan McTeague all become apoplectic.
Hearts And Minds Mixed Over Heartlandia
The bottom line is the attempt to make cross-border activity easier, getting people working as a team more often and to capitalize on what may be a long growth cycle for the West.
All Roads Lead To The Middle
As the region’s agricultural, food processing, aerospace, transportation and manufacturing sectors mature, there is increasing interest in developing new markets within the region.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Let Dairy Farmers Sleep – We’ll Buy Somewhere Else
Canadians would all be better off if we closed down supply management and imported dairy products at world
prices.
Is Quota Helping to Kill the Family Farm?
As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing. FC034
Sylvain Charlebois, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Regina
Professor Charlebois discusses the past, present and future of supply management in Canada.
Eliminate MLCC? I’ll Drink to That!
A part time Winnipegger questions the 50 million dollar cost of Manitoba’s liquor monopoly.
Paying for the Wheat Board
The Canadian Wheat Board model has inadvertently cancelled vast opportunities in the higher end, value added part of the agriculture sector.
Judge’s Decision Hardly Democracy
Fuzzy thinking and heated politics surround the latest near-death experience of the Canadian Wheat Board. In a Federal Court decision last week, Madame Justice Dolores Hansen ruled the government could not exclude barley from CWB control by changing the regulations...
‘I Know I Can Do it Better’ Than the Wheat Board
A week after a court ruling blocked a move by Ottawa to eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on barley sales, Chad Doerksen is still seething. Had the effort been successful, it would have given Prairie farmers such as Mr. Doerksen the power to sell their...
Rolf Penner responds to CWB Chair’s column
Following is the viewpoint of the writer, chair of the Canadian Wheat Board’s board of directors that was published in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Rolf Penner's response is in bold text. Rolf Penner, the author of Wheat board’s price premium simply a myth (SP, July...
CWB Disparities
Re: "The case rests on shaky math," Rolf Penner, Opinion, July 3. Rolf Penner makes a price comparison between wheat at Bottineau, N.D. and Boissevain, Manitoba. While this analysis is a worthwhile exercise, it does not provide the foundation to support Penner's...