The Rural Voice, 1991-10, Page 25branch of the Consumers Association
of Canada. She said most consumers
weren't aware of the problems Cana-
dian farmers are having, and she said
CAC fully supported the farmers'
request for a made in Canada food
policy. "You have to make consumers
understand how little of their food
dollar goes to you, the farmers."
Brian Ireland, a Teeswater area
farmer who works for the Queen's
Bush Rural Ministries, an organ-
ization set up by local churches to
offer advice and support to farmers in
crisis, said the depressed crop prices
can lead to depressed farmers, and
suicides. He said he had a call that
very day from MPP Ellen MacKinnon
(Lambton NDP), who said that three
young farmers in her county had com-
mitted suicide within the week before.
Ireland asked the crowd to be on
the lookout for changes in behaviour
of their neighbouring farmers. "If they
don't appear to be themselves, and
they suddenly change their habits, try
and talk to them or get them some
professional help," Ireland said.
Organizers said they will give the
government until the first of October
before they'll take further action.
The "line in the dirt" committee
doesn't want to take over from any of
the present farm groups. "The
intention of the group is not to form a
new farm organization, but rather to
enhance the efforts of existing farm
organizations and commodity groups,"
says Elliott Lowry of Ripley, another
of the organizers.
"It's clear from the more than
1,000 people who attended our gather-
ing in Lucknow that something must
be done quickly to ensure the survival
of agriculture," he says.
The pleas got immediate action
from Ontario Agriculture minister
Elmer Buchanan who announced at
the Plowing Match that he would be
asking cabinet for an interim payment
of $93 million under the GRIP to flow
to farmers this November.
However, farm leaders say that is
just borrowing from next year's
money, and they are still short the
$124 million difference between
1990-91 crop prices and what GRIP
and NISA would have paid had it been
in place.0
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