Tories challenge Stephen Harper far-right government's attack on Wheat Board as a treasured Canadian institution

Compiled by Iain Mackenzie

	Tracy Parsons.

TORONTO - Tracy Parsons led progressive Tories are challenging the efforts of the Stephen Harper far-right neo-conservative government to dismantle and destroy the Canadian Wheat Board on behalf of U.S. Agri-Business elites. "What lengths will this government go to stack the deck on their goal to gradually eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board? Steven Harper is well known for not tolerating any discussion or dissent in his party," says Ms. Parsons, who is leader of the Tory-inspired Progressive Canadian (PC) Party.

The PC party are Tories who are former supporters of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, before it was essentially taken over by the far-right Alberta-based Alliance Party and Reform Party Establishments operating under the misleading name "Conservative Party of Canada". The PC party had been Canada's oldest party, which was responsible for inspiring the Confederation of Canada in 1867, under the vital leadership of Sir John A. Macdonald.

"We've seen the "drive by smear" tactics that the government uses on anyone who dares to question their agenda. But now, their attempts to influence the vote on continuing the Canadian Wheat Board has reached, in our opinion, the last straw," Federal Tory leader Ms. Parsons adds.

"In a recent outburst, the Agriculture Minister has claimed that pointing out weaknesses in the nature of the barley plebiscite is "bullying tactics, frankly, to farmers who do want some choice," Jim Love, Tory PC Party president further explains.

As Tories, "We are perplexed as to why legitimate discussion of the failings of a government policy objective can be construed as "bullying". Is it indeed bullying to point out that the government has tried to confuse the ballot with multiple ballots? Or is it pressuring farmers to point out that they government has, in our opinion, padded the voting lists by including those who are growing barley for animal feed as well as for human consumption," Joe Hueglin further affirms in a written statement. Mr. Hueglin is a former Member of Parliament in the Progressive Conservative Party (Tories).

Do farmers feel that critics are browbeating them by pointing out that the government has violated the spirit of its own referendum legislation by having an ambiguous question? We claim that the question is "do farmers want the Canadian Wheat Board to continue as a single desk?" This question has a yes or no answer. Instead, the neo-conservative government has introduced a third choice to muddy the waters and divide opposition votes.

"If the government is really concerned with letting farmers decide without any pressure, why are they using a discredited quote from an American lobby group to attack the Board's sales capability?" asks Federal Tory Leader Tracy Parsons.

"Why is the government not mentioning the fact that the Board has already been increasing the options open to those wishing to sell directly. Why are they [Stephen Harper government far right "neo-cons"] so determined to turn over the entire wheat industry to the handful of corporations who control it in the U.S."

"The real question is whether Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland or others of the few firms dominating the barley market will do a better job for farmers' interests than the Wheat Board." stated Party President Jim Love. "That question has already been answered by farmers who actually produce for export. They have elected 4 out of 5 directors who support the idea of continuing the Wheat Board as the sole marketing agent."

As Federal Tories who inspired the Canadian Wheat Board to become a world renown institution, "It's time that we truly leave this in the hands of the farmers and the directors that they have elected," further adds Mr. Parsons.

It is apparent that the efforts of the far-right Stephen Harper government to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board is part of a broader agenda. As confirmed by Lou Dobbs CNN's, military-industrial elites between the U.S. and Canada, seek to unconstitutionally consolidate an anti-democratic "North American Union" (NAU). Military-industrial elites seeks to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board as part of this continentalist agenda which Lou Dobbs CNN calls illegal.

Genuine Canadian Tories represented by Ms. Parsons and her PC Party, are also against the far-right NAU agenda, which has been systemtically covered-up by Canada's mass-media elites, under the directives of Canadian Big Business organizations that buy advertising.

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