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tentions were to protect the industry from
outside forces and to promote a system
that has come to be known as the "hest."
Since the election of a Conservative
government in Ottawa, the board seems to
be paralyzed; paralyzed to make any
public statements to protect our industry
and to seek consumer and urban assistance
which the NFU, through experience in
consumer education, knows is there.
Yet, you jarred yourselves out of your
paralysis to support the "stable funding"
proposal for the OFA — a proposal that
deals out the Christian Farmers Federation
and Catholic Rural Life, let alone your
principal supporter, the "radical NFU."
The lack of support for the OFA in
spite of an aggressive, well -funded mem-
bership program together with a highly
distributed propaganda organ (Farm and
Country) does not "fool" the average milk
producer and the Ontario farmer. In fact
the sterility of the OFA suits the goals of
the govemment of Ontario and, obviously,
the "lack of goals" of the OMMB.
The system of several GFOs rather
than one preferred one puts balance into
the democratic process. The political
party system is an example.
The NFU continues to work very
hard for the agricultural community. It is
through supply -managed marketing
boards, supported by producer funding,
that we will ensure a viable market
coupled with a decent standard of living.
However, as representatives on a
producer -elected board, you must be
encouraged to ensure that the environment
in which you make decisions does not
isolate you from the producers paying the
bilis. You have a great responsibility
toward Ontario dairy farmers.
In these critical times, if you ask
the right questions out in the countryside,
dairy farmers too frequently are critical of
the board's lack of profile, and distrustful
because they feel patronized. Farmers do
not want to receive information that is
censored or at Least altered to put out the
most positive message possible. Farmers
are quite capable of dealing with the facts.
We must learn from experience and
look to the older members of the board to
share their experiences with newly elected
members but, as well, to challenge them to
new directions that will provide the leader-
ship required for our dairy industry today.
The evolution of the industry over 20 years
from the producer side must be reflected in
the evolution of the industry's leadership.
My generation, led by the Ontario
Farmers Union, gave you the supply -
managed system you must protect more
aggressively.
Over the years, the OMMB has
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