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A pioneer in the fight for marketing freedom for farmers, Al Loyns lays out the case for removing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly and explains why the agency is likely to survive the transition.
A moratorium on the licensing of new hog barns is only the worst in a string of poor decisions.
Write up of Frontier Centre’s Policy Experts Meeting held in Regina November 14, 2006.
Far too many band councils operate like despots in Third World countries. Their people are afraid to invest twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a reserve-based business, only to see it shut down by the band council for petty political reasons.
Saskatchewan just cut its provincial tax, when is Manitoba going to join in on the tax cutting?
Cross-border sampling results agree with most of the studies that have been done. Farmers just south of the border get paid more for identical wheat and barley crops. The Wheat Board’s so-called price advantage is a chimera.
Alberta has already proved that responsible public-private competition has helped its education programs now Albertans are asking for the same to be applied to its healthcare programs.
Advocates for the Canadian Wheat Board who say a loss of monopoly power would destroy the agency are mistaken. Its strengths could easily be translated into successful performance in a free market.
Powerpoint slides from Dr. Al Loyns discusses Wheat Board politics . . .