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He was.
Officials from the various groups
planning the rally were in Ottawa
most of the week, taking part in the
meetings with the government earlier
in the weekend, lobbying MPs and
looking after the details of the rally.
They awoke in the morning, Fitzger-
ald recalls, to find the city had been
hit with an overnight snowfall that
added to the already deep levels on
Parliament Hill.
But by mid-morning as the first
stragglers started gathering on
the Hill, the sun had broken
through. Two live bands were on hand
to entertain the swelling crowd in
English and French. Huge speakers
were set up that sent waves of sound
across Parliament Hill lawn that
rebounded off office buildings across
the street (and deafened those who
worked in the press enclosure directly
in front of one speaker).
At LeBreton Flats a huge parking
lot began to fill with buses until even-
tually, it was reported, 700 buses
would be jammed side to side.
Some people didn't have to wait for
the buses. Delegations from as far as
British Columbia had arrived earlier
and stayed overnight in Ottawa hotels.
They were among the first on the Hill,
waving their flags and banners.
Each person on the Hill had a story
to tell. Jim Hallahan, a dairy farmer
from East Wawanosh township in
northern Huron, had been on a march
on Ottawa in 1967 as a young farmer
just starting out. Now he had his
teenaged sons Jamie and Patrick
along, hoping to protect their future so
they could enter the business in a few
years.
Jim's cousin Maurice was along
too. Maurice remembered what the
dairy industry was like before the
milk marketing board was introduced,
how you could take 10 cans of milk to
a processor and he'd send you back
with eight of them because he had far
more milk than you needed.
Nick Whyte of the Seaforth
area, on hand with his wife
Joan, remembers the broiler
industry before supply management.
He was a student at Guelph when the
marketing board came in but he
recalls his father often couldn't recov-
er enough from the bloated market to
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