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Foreign companies, the press release
s said, control; more ...try, hail of Canada's
S food *mum ii id.--tr,
P More tram ! According. to a report
from the, federal agriculture department,
0,0 foreign eonipanles• ;control about 65 per
cent of the. fruit, and vegetable canning
aindustry about`-46;per cent of the frozen
fruit ancd vegetable industry, 32 peri cent
'e of. ate dairy processing industry, 63 per
cert of the. flour milling and breakfast
i cereal business, 52 per cent of candy
i making, 54• per, cent of the soft drink in-
o dustry ` and 25 per cent of the livestock
°, and poultry feeds industry.
o 'Years ago,:the famous industrialist, E.
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P. Taylorwho organized' Argils Corpora
i tion, one of;: the largest of its, hind
in
# ; Canada, •said .he didn't have to own a
. company to• control it. In fact, he proved
i that even• a l5 -per can interest in atom-
e pang went a long way to controlling it.
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That,. ; corporation has tentacles in
i literally dolens of businesses across
i Canada. It is not famous for. ; being
e . generous But it. is a Canadian -owned
company. Its chief executive officer,
i Conrad Black, is' a former, newspaper
S man:
Because it is Canadian -owned, it may
e be a little more amenable to Canadians.
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But the fact that foreign-owned com-
panies
ompaniescontrol so much of theood pro-
cessing industry is ° disturbing.to . this
longtime observer, of the Canadian
agricultural scene. I was well aware that
foreign ownership was high but not
aware it was more than 50 per cent.
If Canadians need any 'moregood
reasons why farm marketing boards are
necessary in this country, this foreigt,
ownership question is the best one.
Farmers, when organized through
legislation open to them, couldbecome
this country's best defence against these
huge conglomerates. Only through
marketing boards are farmers able to
wield a degree of clout when it comes to,
selling their products.
I would venture tosay that the :ex-
ecutive officers of these foreign -owner.
letters u!' Mgrer`laI d by Roo 1ro11li ' tido* Iles l'imaa on, 131 3C 7
companies try,almost to- a .man,. that
marketing boards area curse -to.
mankind. Those guys hate marketing
boards; especially supply management
boards, because those boards give
farmers a modicum of power.
The . multi -national companies " are
eager for power. They want all they can
get and they are frustrated when
farmers get some of that power. They do
not like it.
They wantit all When theyget it, they
can control everything we eat, right from
the time it is planted to.' the time it
reaches our tables... When 'that much.
power is concentrated in a few hands, as
it is in Canada, it is too dangerous. Only
marketing boards and a watchful
government can prevent that power from
corrupting:
sturbing
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Canadians have always welcomed e
foreign capital. I suppose we should con- ;
tinue todo so. But that capital, oftenbr- $
ings long-term and open-ended obliga- s
tions such as. . constantly repaying and e
then simply paying -out all profits..
Author of the study done for
Agriculture Canada, Pamela Cooper, S
said that instead of spurring competition e
here, the clout of the foreign company e
may, in fact, contribute -to less innova- ;
tion and lower productivity since multi- i
national firms tend to concentrate their e
, research and'development spending in
their home market. \;
Certainly, that statement has a hefty i
ring of truth as far as Canada is concern-
ed.
While I'm talking about marketing e
boards, I find it difficult to understand e
why everybody is getting so uptight S
about plans to slaughter hens to cut egg i
production in this country. The:market is i
glutted with eggs. So farmers are simply e
laying off a few million workers: hens. S
General Motors has laid off a few thou- i
sand workers, too, and the, price of cars 'e
has gone up. o
What's so bad about laying off some
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Hauling .
*from page 1
most economical and appropriate mode of
transportation is rail. Transportation by
truck was found to be much more costly than
transportation by rail.
The report suggests the harmful effects of
the trucking of aggregates on local residents
could be reduced by giving grater recogni-
tion in the MTC's municipal roads subsidy.
program for improving municipal roads used
for' aggregate haulage. The road surfacing
program could also be enlarged so all roads
used for significant aggregate haulage
INI
regales...
would be hard surfaced.
The report further suggests if rail is used
to haul aggregate, rail traffic will increase
significantly. For example, between Saug-
een and' Toronto rail traffic would increase
from a few short trains per week to 48 long
trains per day.
The Huron ,County Road committee has
recommended the county engineer indicate
to the Ministry of Natural Resources their
concern for the building of aggregate across
the county highway. system and encourage
the findings of the study be implemented.
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