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Taking issue
with Adrian Vos
I take issue with a statement in Adrian
Vos's column (January issue). In present-
ing the opinion that society will not sup-
port a class that earns most of its income
from other sources, he said: "We see this
already in the refusal by the Peterson
government to reimburse hobby farmers
for part of their taxes." He has fallen into
the trap that the govemment set, saying the
farm tax rebate was and is a subsidy.
Nineteen years ago, the Conservative
government with W. A. (Bill) Stewart as
Minister of Agriculture introduced the
rebate by an emergency Order In Council.
The reason: farmers objected to paying
taxes for education by levy on their total
assessment. Today they pay taxes for
education on their residence and one acre
of land, roughly equal to that paid by the
town taxpayer with his residence and
postage -stamp sized lot.
As long as I can remember, a big 50
per cent of farmers in this country and the
U.S. have had off -farm jobs or have had
enterprises in addition to their farm oper-
ation. To clean out everyone that wasn't
a pure farmer would eliminate many able
and thrifty operators. Agriculture minister
Ramsay's committee will no doubt look
into the situation of the urbanite living on a
farm but not working it, but the committee
should not forget that the original purpose
of the tax rebate was to correct injustice,
not to offer a handout from an allegedly
generous government.
Addressing Adrian's main argument
for policies to ease the transition from the
farm for those in difficulties, I believe
there are other agencies more appropriate
for making representation. It would be
extremely negative for the Federation of
Agriculture to give emphasis to such a
program — not unlike a municipality that
is gung ho for separations, reasoning that
there is no money in farming and taxpay-
ers may as well sell off bit by bit to the
tourists and to bedroom strip development.
I concur with Keith Roulston in his
column where he says Canadian farmers
have been betrayed by just about everyone
in the past few years, most of all by their