Dear Editor:
Minister Ritz's bill on "Grain Marketing Freedom" has created a wonderful opportunity.
This year alone, increased profits related to his legislative changes for marketing farmer's grain is in the billions. The market has decided and the market is never wrong.
Unfortunately for farmers, the grain companies have won the Ritz Freedom Lottery and they will continue to win it from now on. Will they thank Ritz and Harper for an annual windfall of billions?
The least they could do is send a thank you card. If they do, the card should look something like this. "Thank you Ritz and Harper for not giving farmers a vote on your change to the way their grain must be marketed". The grain companies knew that if farmers were allowed to vote on the change, they would have voted against it. Just like their grandparents, today's farmers, understand the reality of a market where a power imbalance exists between the key players. That's why the pioneering farmers created the Canadian Wheat Board and that's why their descendants wanted to maintain it. The market is never wrong. It rewards those who have power. The grain companies now have the power.
Eric Sagan
Melville, SK.
