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8 THE RURAL VOICE
PERSPECTIVES ON
THE FARM AGENDA
Sometimes a columnist has to
write a column like this — a jumble of
detached thoughts rather than one line
of logic with a beginning, middle, and
end.
But these items have been piling
up in my head and because this is a
monthly publication I might never get
around to them as other ideas pile on
top. So here goes:
In the last issue of The Rural Voice
I reported that World War II veteran
Ken Farrow and his wife Charlotte
were in a final battle to save their beef
and pig operation near Paisley.
In Walkerton court on Valentine's
Day, the old warrior listened to Bank
of Montreal lawyer Duncan Grace
fight Farrow's bid to put a permanent
injunction in place against the bank's
cashing of a $155,000 cheque.
In a nutshell, cashing the govern-
ment OFAAP guarantee cheque would
force the Bank of Montreal to liquid-
ate Farrow and put him out of busi-
ness, Farrow's lawyer argued.
Farrow has sued the bank "for
falsely alleging my loans are in
substantial arrears" and has asked for
the injunction until his suit is heard.
However, in opposing the
injunction, bank lawyer Grace told
Judge J. I. McKay: "This case is high
on emotion and thin on principle."
Well, it appears Judge McKay
didn't agree, because in a written
decision after the Farrow injunction
bid was heard McKay granted
Farrow's injunction.
Among the judge's reasons:
Farrow's "action is not frivolous,"
there is "an important triable issue,"
and finally, the continuation of the
injunction "until trial will not have a
serious and prejudicial effect on" the
bank. Stay tuned, folks.
* * *
If you think I'd forget my favourite
obsession, free trade, in this collection
of bits and pieces, think again.
Just before heading off to Britain
to take up a new position as Canada's
high commissioner, an architect of the
free -trade sellout to the U.S. made
some smug forecasts about the pact.
Canadians can expect more layoffs,
buyouts, and takeovers before seeing
any benefit from the pact, said Donald
Macdonald.
"There will be some jobs lost. But
that, of course, was always contempla-
ted," he said with the upper class ring
of 'Let them eat cake!'
Even after free trade has been
phased in, the benefits might not be
apparent, Macdonald said. He might
have added: especially to those of you
who have lost your jobs, your farms.
We can be thankful, at least, that
Macdonald will be out of the country
for the next while, sipping sherry with
that elite who never have to care about
losing their jobs.
Mind you, the bill for Macdonald's
rubbing shoulders with Europe's elite
is footed by us 21st -century peons —
the Canadian taxpayers.
* * *
Here goes my final beef. A
vital referendum faces the decimated
Ontario beef industry this month.
To clot the bloodletting of the mar-
ketplace, an OMAF producer referen-
dum asks two questions: (1) do you
want a single selling desk through an
Ontario Beef Cattle Marketing Com-
mission? (2) do you want the author-
ity for cost of production pricing and
to match supply to demand?
The word is that there's a lot of
mud -slinging in the countryside.
Boys, take the advice of University
of Alberta economist Murray Hawkins
that cooler heads prevail. The
industry can't afford deep-seated
animosity.0
Gord Wainrnan has been an urban -
based agriculture reporter for 13 years.