NEWS RELEASE
May 29, 1998 For Immediate Delivery
BREITKREUZ WELCOMES WHEAT BOARD BILL BACK TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
"Saskatchewan Liberal Leader shows flaws in Bill C-4 his federal counterparts are ignoring."
Ottawa—This week, Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. for Yorkton-Melville, took time to welcome Bill C-4 back to the House of Commons. Bill C-4, an Act to amend the Canadian Wheat Board Act, was sent back to the House by the Senate with a five amendments for the government to consider.
Breitkreuz made the following statement in the House of Commons on Wednesday, May 28th (Hansard – page 7271):
CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD
Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville, Ref.): Mr. Speaker, the results of a survey on grain marketing in Saskatchewan was recently made public. I thought members who helped ram Bill C-4 through the House would be interested in the results.
Sixty per cent of the respondents thought there should be dual marketing for wheat; that is, the Canadian Wheat Board should not be the only company the western farmers can sell their wheat and barley to. Sixty-one per cent thought there should be a provision for producers to sell a portion of their production outside the Canadian Wheat Board. Fifty-four per cent thought the wheat board would be effective in a dual market. Fifty-three per cent felt they did not know enough about the changes to the wheat board passed in Bill C-4.
I think members on the government side will pay more attention to these survey results when they learn that the survey was conducted by the leader of the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan.
"Unfortunately, the amendments recommended by the Senate only prove once again that it is simply a puppet controlled by the government. The government will probably ram these do-nothing, watered-down amendments through the House the same way they did the original bill – ignoring what farmers really want in the process," concluded Breitkreuz.
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