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The problem:is were all too greedy,"
Willert commented. They don't tell you how
to get a price for your „proc1.40, or what the
'chemicals are doing to the land or hOW,
furrows of soil are being washed away along
with $Billion of fertilizer into Lake Huron, he
said . "We are -devastating our cash er9ti. -communities," - • :••
Young .peapie %.in.farming today haveo
grown :into the system and they know, no
,other way. Fara', nitrates and nitrites are
polluting wells at the 300 foot level.
Stabilization without upper /Wits is a
•disaster because the big farmer will over
produce. The income tax system encourages
be farmer to spend money to avoid paying,
tax which encourages him to 'spend money:
he
le hasn't got -The National Farmers' :Union
supports price for product, said Willert-
The'. issue . of private ownership is.
important and must be addressed or young
farmers are going to be renters not land-
owners.; There is no difference between
oreign ownership and 'corporate ownership',
oy Labatts; the land still, does not.belong to
the farmer, Willert observed. -
Rev. Paul Mooney of Zurich stressed that -
a policy, of self reliance is the only policy,.
People are producing luxury crops the
•Third World countries where they could 'be --
growing their own food. Rev. Mooney of the
Catholic Rural Life Conference said he has
worked in Latin Americari countries where
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they are using 90 per cent of their water to
grow sitgar catieto ship to the Vnited states
to refine it and sell it back at an exhorbitant
price to the people • wholiteduced it. . •
The United States will ,soQii. want. &lc
water„ to .Igo* gratn,Jor. Third W9$4
countries where. they could ?e growing their
-Own food if they weren't growing luxury
crops for export, Said Mooney.
Bill Jongejan of the Christian Farmers
Fe4eration said his organization had met
with Ontario agricultural minister Dennis
Timbrell • earlier in the day to outline their
position. in their brief to the minister
Jongejan said they pointed out that stabiliza-
tiOn payments will • benefit established
Producers and.struggling farmers will not be
able to compete. Targeted assistance is
necessary to keep. the struggling farmer on
the land and' tax lledtictions should alio be'
targeted, iliegroup told Timbrell.
The Christian Farmers Federation encour-
ages debt set aside with application to ' a
tribunal'or courta to have debts restructured,
said Jongejan. -
Brian Ireland, Teeswater,. of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture '(4:)FA) said he
doesn't believe a tripartite stabilization.plan
will ever, be, implemented. -When it " is
implemented; there Will be a 2 7 S year phase
in 'period sofarmers shouldn't hold 'their
breath waiting for the tripartite plan to bail
them out. The OFA lobbies for expansion .of
the Ontario Farm AssistanceAdjustment
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program and a guaranteed interest rate. He
'5aid the OFA tries to agree with the
positions of the other farm organizations.
Ireland 'said he is not sure that the threat
of losing land is a local problem, He said he.
fears in a• *iv yeari-we May b5•ffightling 40.
take back the land from foreign interests and
corporate ° ownership. .
Ireland urged the farmers and the farm
organilations represented at the meeting to
get together and build on their strengths and
forget their weaknesses. •
"Subsidy will not solve ' the problem, We
hav to; get a price for •our product," Ireland
concluded,. • •
Allan Wilford of the Farm Survival
Association told the summit that Canada as,a
whole •will prosper •when 'governnient
decides to restore parity to. farmers, The
'recent depression was caused because credit
has been substituted for earned money and
secondary industry and the Overnment
has to 'borrow when the prima* industry,
farming; must borrow. If the farmers path-
ising ;power is restored by givingfarmers
parity, the • whole economic 'system will
recover, said Wilford.
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On the subject of over production he
,observed that people cannot buy our‘excess
because they don't have the •purchasing
power..Government's view of the agricultur-•
-al problem' is that there are too many
•farmers: Government thinks if they reduce
the number of farmers (by forcing then -tint°
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destruction of the family fain because
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they do not stand...together. •
Justice is standing up, for the rights of
others, said Wilford and ..1the Tann gate
defence staged by the Survival Association.
has stopped the strong armed tactics of the
banks. A judge's ruling on -a court case,
which resulted from 'one of the -farm gate
defence actions taken by the Survivalists,
has effectively ' stopped the sheriffs of
•• Ontario ffom moving against a farmer,
• Wilford said. The judge ruled that if you are
• in •peaceful -Posses -Sion of your property you
have the right to protect that property.
• Wilford stated that, corporate ownership of -
farm land will ,destroy the fabric' of. a
• community and. 'reminded the meeting that
• the revolution in Nicaragua occurred when
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