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26 THE RURAL VOICE
boards, such as for milk or chicken,
which have anarbitrator appointed to
settle disputes.
Although the deadline for
reaching an agreement has
already been postponed twice
because some progress was being
made, that situation cannot go on
indefinitely, said Gordon.
Ultimately, the commission, made up
of well-respected people appointed
by the ministry from all facets of the
pork industry as well as consumers,
can change the rules and regulations
under which Ontario Pork operates.
Or it can simply grant the request to
go on with an auction.
Moore said the Ontario Pork board
was given only two days notice of the
first hearing called by the
commission on October 25 and then
was surprised to learn that the auction
was being revoked, not just
postponed. He was also caught short
when the status of hog contracts to
U.S. processors was included in the
hearing. "It was different than what
we were prepared to discuss."
Under the price formula system,
U.S. processors can't bid on Ontario
hogs but they are given access to
them through contracts so one
balances the other, suggested Moore
adding, "There is no favouritism."
Processors here have been hiding
behind the countervail duty that must
be paid to get live Ontario hogs
across the border, said Moore.
Referring again to McCain, Moore
suggested he is trying to buy hogs
here as cheaply as he can which is
diametrically opposed to what the
board is trying to accomplish with a
return to an open auction.
He disagrees with McCain's
contention that he docs not have
access to U.S. hogs because of
pseudo -rabies. He suggested
processors can purchase chilled
carcasses from south of the border,
similar to what Thome Apple Valley
is already doing in Ontario. That is
something McCain said he docs not
want to do while his plants here are
aheady operating far under capacity.
With 90,000 hogs per week
consumed in Ontario and only 78,000
per week offered for salt by Ontario
producers, the demand for hogs is
certainly present. Establishing a
marketing system so both producers
and processors here can profitably fill
it remains that dilemma.0