Conservative government wins legal battle with Canadian Wheat Board

January 25, 2010

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the Canadian Wheat Board’s case against the Conservative government.
 
This followed the Federal Court of Appeal’s earlier ruling that the government was well within its rights to direct the Wheat Board not to spend farmers’ hard-earned money on pro-Wheat Board propaganda.
 
What’s more, the decision to dismiss ‘with costs’ proves the Wheat Board wasted farmers’ hard-earned money.  The Wheat Board will now have to explain why it spent Canadian farmers’ money employing a team of high-priced lawyers for over three years on a frivolous case.
 
The Conservative government has always maintained that the Wheat Board should stick to its mandate of marketing grain.  It should not spend farmers’ money on lobbying farmers for its own political purposes