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AUCTION SALE *
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Saturday, June 18th - 9:30 a.m. SHARP!
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Approximately 40 tractors. 2 Skid Steer Loaders. Over 200 Pieces of new &
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chainsaws, trailers, etc. Trucking & lunch available. Terms - Cash, Visa,
Mastercard or good cheque day of sale.
Auctioneers: Glenn Sinclair & Bruce Ward
'Come & check our yard - buy at your price before the Auction"
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Hwy. #6, Wiarton, Ontario (519) 534-1638 or 534-2980
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having to pay too much toward
education taxes by paying on their
whole farm. Each year the
government would pledge to look for
a new formula but each year nothing
happened.
n 1970 two regional directors
from western Ontario brought a
motion to the OFA monthly board
meeting calling on OFA to encourage
farmers to withhold education taxes.
"To my dismay it carried," Hill
remembers somewhat sheepishly. "I
was sure we'd cut our throats but it
was just the opposite."
The prospect that farmers would
withhold a large part of their property
tax put municipalities in a bind
because they would still be required
to pay school boards, who had no
ability to collect tax on their own,
their requirements.
Prime Rib Roast, June 1975:
$1.58 Ib. Miracle Food Mart
Top Sirloin Rotisserie Roast,
May 2005: $4.99 Ib.
Foodland
OFA members at the local level
visited councils to explain that the
farmers weren't trying to pressure
them but were trying to get
provincial help. Farmers also wrote
letters to the editor to explain their
situation. Everywhere they turned
MPPs ran into protests over the issue.
With a provincial election coming up
the next year, the government came
up with a plan to give farmers a 25
per cent farm tax rebate, an amount
later increased to 50 per cent.
Despite these head-to-head
confrontations with Stewart and his
government, Hill still calls him the
greatest provincial agriculture
minister. It was Stewart who
encouraged and abetted the formation
of supply management, including
instituting the Ontario Milk
Marketing Board without a vote,
allaying fears with the promise that
producers could have a vote after two
years if they still wanted one. It's
easy to forget now that the dairy
industry was fractured into various
groups from fluid milk shippers to
those shipping for cheese production
to Guernsey, Jersey and Holstein
shippers that had never been able to
get an agreement to combine their
efforts.