Farmers, the wheat board, and defeating Harper
By Darrell Rankin, Winnipeg Unless a court overturns Bill C-18, the so-called “Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act”, the loss of the Canadian Wheat Board will be a heavy blow to prairie farmers, to all Canadians, and to the global food system. The millions who rely on grain imports are now more firmly in the [...]
Manitoba Committee, Communist Party of Canada, October 28, 2011 We don’t want to wake up after four years of Harper Conservative rule and not recognize the Canada we now have. More than 60,000 Western Canadian farmers and their Wheat Board are under the most serious attack in history. Unless the labour movement comes [...]
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People’s Voice Editorial In the latest example of Tory arrogance, Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced on Sept. 12 that he will ignore the will of farmers and legislate the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk marketing system out of existence by August 1, 2012. The Minister’s edict was issued on the same day [...]
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By Darrell Rankin More than two thousand wheat and barley farmers attended meetings across the prairies in August to discuss the fate of the Canadian Wheat Board. They came despite a threat by the Harper Conservatives to ignore the wishes of more than 68,000 farmers should they vote in a plebiscite to keep [...]
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Labour-Farmer unity needed to save Wheat Board – Communist Party urges broad, strong fight to save CWB. The Communist Party is urging a broad and strong fight to save the Canadian Wheat Board, a fight which can succeed in defeating the dictatorial Conservative Party plan to demolish the Board. The Party is calling or the [...]
Continue reading …Election 2011 – On earth day, CPC releases more detailed environmental policy
22/04/2011 Comments OffTo mark Earth Day, the Communist Party of Canada released a more detailed set of proposals designed to protect the environment. “The major opposition parties including the Green Party base their policies on “market-based” tinkering with the “real costs” of human economic activities. But the Communist Party argues that capitalism itself, a system based on [...]
Continue reading …1. Charge the real G20 criminals Chaos, brutality and waste marked the brutal repression during the G20 Summit last June in Toronto. Over 1100 people were arrested, for the “crime” of peacefully demonstrating for affordable housing, workers’ rights, an end to war and occupation, and environmental justice. This “security” operation cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion. [...]
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