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COMMENTS ON
RECENT COLUMNS
I wish to comment on two articles
in the May issue of your excellent
farm magazine.
One article, by Keith Roulston,
says Smallness of market and enter-
prise are good for Canadian farmers.
I had thought that Canadian farmers,
other than dairy and poultry, enjoyed
exporting and only wanted a level
playing field. Have I been mistaken
in this over all of these years? The
article did indicate the greatest threat
to supply management is the GATT
talks — with or without a free trade
agreement.
The other article, by Gord Wain -
man, lampoons government support to
beleaguered farmers. John Wise has
been a vigorous leader who has on
every turn worked both in cabinet and
with backbenchers to keep support at a
maximum. His department has even
been criticized by the auditor general
for using calculation methods under
the ASA that gave farmers the highest
payout. Mr. Wise was the main push
in the special grains payments.
The fact that some farmers have to
leave their business does not rest on
the shoulders of Mr. Wise or this
government. All businesses have
failures at the best of times, and we
have more farm failures now because
of the inflation spiral of the early
1980s and low commodity prices.
Mr. Wainman's article suggests that
farmers in trouble should be tramped
on, rather than helped to make a
change. This might get the problem
over more quickly, but does not
answer the social and economic
problems of farmers and farm com-
munities.0
Harry Brightwell,
Member of Parliament
Perth County