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40 THE RURAL VOICE
NEWS
the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade because it offers access to foreign
markets but disregards low wages and
risky production methods (eg. toxic
chemicals).
He stressed that he believes in pri-
vate initiative but cautioned that there
are duties attached. Is the principle of
supply and demand, he asked, enough
justification for the human misery
caused by the farm failures of the 1980s,
which were themselves caused by eco-
nomic circumstances beyond the con-
trol of farmers.
Later in his talk he maintained that, if
food is a right, no one should be allowed
to set food prices. The exception would
be the co-operative setting of just prices
for common commodities, but only if
the benefits accrue to the producer on
the family farm.
Farmers are expected to be efficient
and so more free trade is promoted, he
said. But Canada is becoming less reli-
ant on its own food and agriculture, Lan-
glois added, asking if we can retain our
sovereignty under such circumstances.
It is better to be self-reliant than to
depend on freer trade, and the world
should recognize a nation 's goal of basic
food self-reliance, he said. An analogy
is the livestock producer who is depend-
ent on feed suppliers versus the one that
produces his own feed.
Taking aim at the futures market, he
deplored the fact that commodity mar-
kets often decide the price of a product.
Food products should not be priced on a
purely economic basis but rather on a
human basis, he said.
The free enterprise system fosters
such anomalies as the Ethiopian govern-
ment's exporting of white beans in
competition with Canadian producers in
1985 — at the same time that Ethiopian
people were starving.
Langlois concluded that he would
rather see the national interest served
before the global interest. The principle
should be that a central government
directs and regional governments im-
plement the ideas.
He conceded that this approach
doesn't always work, however. An
example, he said, is that Alberta benefits
from its agricultural and economic ad-
vantages relative to the Atlantic prov-
inces.0
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