Rural Voters Slammed!

I am spitting mad, and I hope all rural/western voters are too! ALL opposition parties today voted against freedom for western farmers. They want to keep them under the yoke of the Canadian Wheat Board, and voted down a bill that would have let farmers sell their wheat directly to western farmer owned/operated value added plants, like one that produces pasta.

As well, the unelected senators, took the Canadian Wheat Board off of the list of corporations that would be open to the public under the privacy act! So, western farmers are not even allowed access to information about what the Canadian Wheat Board is doing, with their money! Now, why would the Liberal senate do that, hummm?

So, western farmers got slammed on two fronts today, and must continue to sell their wheat to ONLY the Canadian Wheat Board, or be JAILED! Yup, that's right, in Canada, western wheat farmers can not sell THEIR wheat as they want, they are ruled by a monopoly.

Eastern farmers are not FORCED to sell their wheat to the Canadian Wheat Board, nope, they can choose who they want to sell it to, without being put in jail. So, why are our western farmers not allowed that same freedom?

The opposition parties are playing politics with the west, I watched the debate about Bill-300 the other day, and their reasons for not supporting it were such baloney it would have been funny, except, our supposed MP's are STIFFLING democracy and freedom. The ones speaking up against it were all from the east or big cities, what the heck do they know about what our western farmers want, what right do they have to jail our farmers, like the Liberal government did when they were in power.

The Liberal government ignored our farmers for 13 years, but now they are interested in them? They hung our farmers out to dry when the borders closed because of BSE, and they are hanging them out to dry again by voting against a bill that would have given them one tiny little freedom to sell their wheat to THEMSELVES and add value as well.

So, swinger's clubs are legal, SSM is legal, but our western farmers selling their own wheat to anyone BUT the Canadian Wheat Board, is illegal? What's wrong with that picture?