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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 15, 1952 --Page 7
by Bob Trotter
If Canadian farmers had any doubts.
about the clout of Eugene Whelan in
the Liberal cabinet, those doubts have
been disspelled this month,
Whelan has been. promising ° for
weeks to meet with his provincial:
counterparts to discuss farm price
supports across the country. But
Eugene's stalling tactics may have
pushed the meeting into oblivion.
Remember when Whelanled the at-
tack on the Tories clean, across.
Canada, when he delivered a dozen or
more rural seats after barnstorming
from coast to coast? `..He was
Trudeau's white-haired, . green,
Stetsoned boy in those days. His down-
to -earth speeches impressed more
than. just farmers.' •
But when Pierre announced his
retirement, Eugene jumped into the -
leadership race. That was enough to
put a dent in Trudeau's arrogance.
Since then, Whelan has hada less -
than -impressive cabinet presence.
To put it bluntly, he has had great
problems getting anything for
ffarmers.
In Halifax in July, Whelan promised
he would attend a meeting with pro-
vincial agministers in August to
discuss stabilization plans for all the
major agricultural .products
Marketed .in Canada. At the meeting,
he fretted and fumed and stalled any
talks on stabilizationuntil late in the
day, His excuses included a delay in
getting his papers on the subject from,
Ottawa. In the afternoon, he hedged
again by saying he needed more time
to make copies of those papers when
they did arrive.
When a discussion was held, a docu-
ment only three or four pages long
was tabled and a couple of ministers
- including Dennis Tunbrell of On-
tario — said the paper tabled was
nothing, but a rehash of old stuff.
Whelan admitted he had no mandate
from the federal cabinet to make any
commitments.
This is not the old, • flamboyant,
shoot -from -the -hip Whelan who
dominated the farm'scene for :six or
seven years,
This is not the same man who said
he may not be the best agricultural
minister in Canada's history but he
sure was the ugliest. He no .longer
pokes fun at himself and, by so doing,
gets people on his side.
It is certainly an indication that
Trudeau wants no strong men in his
cabinet who might threaten his sur-
vival,. It is obvious 'that Eugene
Whelan posed a'leadership threat and
his popularity . had to be pruned by
Pierre and his pundits.
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plan to prevent the devastating highs
and lows of the open marketplace.
They need protection to remain in
business to which the high incidence
of bankruptcies can attest.
A record-breaking grain harvest is
underway now in the United States, a
huge surplus which will have tremen-
dous effects on all major agricultural
products. The entire • agricultural
economy will feel the effects. The
surplus of grain will show up in a year
as surplus meat. Forecasters are
already saying that the extraordinary
pork prices of the last few months will
drop to a loss by Christmas and turn
to disaster by Easter.
Any kind of stabilization plan to pro-
tect' farmers
ro-
tect'farmers must be implemented as
s'oon•as possible for all the major pro-
ducts. Unfortunately, there are dif-
ferences among the provinces on how
to implement the program. '-One
reason Mr. Whelan is having trouble
getting a federal plan in place is
because of the differences in generosi-
ty for the plans now in place in the
provinces. He has beenasking the
other agministers to put an end to this
proliferation.
But he has been unable to get any,
commitment from the federal
cabinet. Which only underlines the
fact that his clout has diminished to
that of a backbencher.
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