HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-03-15, Page 45•
Farm Progress '8S -Page 27
The future of agriculture
•from page 24
"In all fairness, the Liberals have
come out with a pretty good
looking package, too, right before
an election. For my mind, the party
that is able to sell that on a broad
basis across their whole party is the
one that we should be looking at,"
said Wallace.
"When you get down to Toronto
and you've got urban members that
are looking for their services -
sewers and their water and their
roads. Often in the past we have
been the ones who have been
shoved off and left without. How
broad-based in your party is this
agricultural policy and how is it
being sold to the urban members?"
asked Wallace.
"Well certainly the urban mem-
bers have had a look at this in our
party and they have no problem.
About a third of our caucus is rural -
based. We would hope that after the
next election we would have more
than 50 per cent," said Villeneuve.
"The government of the day has
probably 60 - 40 urban to rural. But
who got cut? - Agriculture got cut
severely and has very little say
about the planning process," said
the Tory agricultural critic.
"But it gets back to what (Premier
Bob) Rae was saying. That policies
are driven by the bureaucracies and
they have been able to convince the
politicians that these are the good
ideas. When you've got so much of
our population that doesn't have a
clue about what is happening out
here in rural Ontario it's very easy
to be convinced when you're only
seeing that one side of the story,"
said Wallace.
Villeneuve accused the NDP
government of "buying off" groups
that loudly voiced complaints like
environmental protesters.
"We've not seen many
demonstrations at Queen's Park
pertaining to the environment lately.
And yet we're not without basically
the same problems in the environ-
ment that we've had. Do you think
possibly that the demonstration is
now work for the Ministry of the
Largest market
is in the west
•from page 26
promoted between Ontario and
British Columbia.
"Right now, our largest market is
in British Columbia."
The product extends the line of
cheeses offered by the company and
appeals to the people exploring the
expanding health food industry.
Gardner said those types of prod-
ucts seem to be more popular in
British Columbia.
"I think people are more con-
cerned with what they are eating."
"We're appealing to the health
conscious consumer."
Three major grocery chains are
already selling Meadow Gold
organic cheese.
"We're working on markets in
Ontario."
Environment? We know some of
them do. That diffuses what was
perceived to be. a problem when
you buy them off," said Villeneuve.
"I'm not telling you that agricul-
ture and rural Ontario can be
bought off, far from it. But we need
to have members within the
government caucus, whoever that is,
that come from the rural part of
Ontario and bring your concerns to
the province," said the provincial
Tory agriculture critic.
OCA president
offers congrats
to province
Harvey Graham, the new On-
tario Cattlemen's Association
president, congratulated Ontario
on being the first province in
Canada to introduce beef grade
labelling regulatin.'s.
"The (Naafi() becf industry felt
that this labelling requirement
was necessary to help the, con-
sumer select the product he or
she prefers. Today's consumers
often report a lack of consisten-
cy in quality when purchasing
beef," said Graham. "The
A/AA/AAA labelling regulation
will hopefully resolve this
problem."
Foremost on Graham's agenda,
as president, is the Ontario Beef
Linkages Project.
"The competitive position of
the Ontario beef industry must
improve in this global
marketplace. The Linkages
project will facilitate cooperation
among all sectors of the industry
and will benefit all those in-
volved through Unproved com-
munication; said Graham.
"There will be many challen-
ges in the year ahead, but, this is
something that we as beef
farmers have become accus-
tomed to handling," he said. "As
always, I will be looking ahead
with optimism and a deter-
mination to work on behalf of
Ontario producers for the benefit
of our industry."
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