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28 THE RURAL VOICE
One of the things that disturbs Hill
today is the number of farmers who
are trying to get around their
marketing organization. Their
attitude seems to be that "I'm
smarter", he says. "They don't realize
what it was like before (marketing
boards) and what it would be like if
marketing boards were lost."
While Stewart was the hero at the
provincial level for helping get
supply management launched, it was
Bud Olsen, pushed by Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau, who got
national legislation passed. "If we
hadn't gotten the legislation when we
did we'd never have gotten it," Hill
says. Olsen paid for going against
vociferous opposition from western
cattlemen by losing his seat in the
next election. It was left to Eugene
Whelan to implement the national
program.
"Bud Olsen put it in but Gene
Whelan made it work," Hill recalls.
"Gene Whelan was the best advocate
for farmers that I ever knew."
Supply management is not only
efficient for fanners but for society,
Hill says.
"Why waste resources to produce
a product that isn't profitable," he
says. "Why use precious petroleum
to grow a crop nobody wants to buy."
He's not nearly as
complimentary about more
recent ministers of agriculture
at both the federal and provincial
level as he is towards Stewart and
Whelan. Steve Peters, he says, was
better in opposition than as
provincial minister of agriculture. If
Gene Whelan had been placed in the
position of Lyle Vanclief as "(Jean)
Chretien's little lap dog" he would
have resigned in protest, Hill
predicts.
Between the instituting of supply
management in dairy and poultry and
mammoth grain buying by the Soviet
Union which absorbed grain
surpluses, farm prices rebounded in
the 1970s. 'The '70s are the longest
period of agricultural prosperity I can
remember," Hill says.
But in the mid -1980 the
combination of high interest rates,
high land prices and low commodity
prices brought a crisis like few had
seen before.
"We squeaked through the '90s,"
Hill says but the combination of the
BSE crisis in beef and sheep and