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Blessed
Be He
May this holiday -
season hold a
special meaning
for you.
Cecil & Ruth
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Exeter •23S-0465
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I. Lett every
heart rejoice
in the hope
and promise
born on that
g holy night.
Our gratitude for your kind support
g June, Barry, Greg, Vic
If farmers think they have won the
battle of supply management, they
ain't seen .nothin' yet, as Al Jolson
once said. Consumer groups and big
business have been carping for
decades at the clout farm marketing
boards have. i thought the sleazy
remarks were over; that farmers had
made their point and justified the
legality of their actions.
I was wrong. -Or didn't you see the
quote by Pierre Lortie, chief ex-
ecutive officer of Provigo Inc.? Pierre
spoke at the second annual.
agricultural outlook conference in
Toronto in October: Marketing
boards "will be dismantled because
they certainly don't help the con-
sumer" and shoppers "won't put up
with it much longer if they have to
pay twice the price as in another pro-
vince or country...so you'll have to
find a better way to do it"...and
"there may be a -lot of yelling and
screaming in the p?ocess."
I should hope there will be a lot of
yelling and screaming. I jiope the yell,
ing and screaming from the farmers
across this nation will be too loud to
ignore. °
Too many farmers worked too hard
and too long in the fight to get legisla-
tion to form marketing boards. What
bothers me is that board such as the
Ontario.Milk Marketing Board have
been in operation for 20 years, a
generation. Dairy producers could
become complacent. Their marketing
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board could be dismantled while they
squabble about buying windshield
washer for their truckers.
I have heard it said that Christiani-
ty has no grandsons, that the fervor
of new believers must be rekindled
every other generation. Much the
same could be said about freedom,
too. An the fight for marketing
boards. •
The outlook conference was attend-
ed by 300 of the most influential food
industry leaders, farm organization
leaders, marketing board officals,
government agencies and food cor-
portations. There was a standing -
room -only -crowd 'this year and the
problems in agriculture attracted
them.
Then, in late November, the annual
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
convention was held in Toronto.
Harry Pelissero, re-elected president
made it a point to plead for unity
among farm organizations. He is
quite aware of the attacks against
.quota -setting marketing boards. He
stressed that farmers must be united
in their stand against detractors.
In my many years of associating
with farmers, I have always been im-
pressed with their fierce in-
dependence. They are ready to take
on the world, all alone. But this in-
dependence could become_ their
albatross. They must speak with a
single vole. It is no longer possible
to have three or four or a half -a -dozen
different organizations making
separate approaches to any level of
government.
Politicians know that farmers
make up only four or five percent of
the total population, down from six
percent a decade ago. Until that four
or five percent are united, their pleas
will be ignored.
Gi'EEt ings
The magic of Christmas,
the joy of toys, the won-
derful warmth we all feel!
May this special time be
filled with merriment and
happy memories for you!
Only three sources of revenue are
,open to farmers: 'sales to Canadians,
exports and government subsidies.
Canadian farmers depend on exports
for almost half their revenue, pro-
bably to a greater extent than any
other country in the world. But world
markets are depressed and govern-
ments, our own included, are forlorn-
ly trying to balance the books. An in-
crease in government help will be a
long, fierce fight.
Only a concerted, united front will
work.
It's a lesson not yet learned by
Canadian farmers. They had better
learn it soon. Sir Winston Churchill in
his first statement in the British
House of Commons as prime minister
in 1940 said: "I have nothing to offer
but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
It will be almost as tough a fight for
agriculture.
JAPANESE LUNCH - - GBPS principal Norm MacPherson, center,
tastes some of the chicken teriyaki, while students Andrew Sharen,
left, and Warren Haist, master the art of chopsticks. The grades 3
and 4 classes ate their lunch this way last Monday to honor visiting
Japanese teacher Yoshiaki Taniguchi, who was here on the Interna-
tional Internship Program. He has increased his awareness of our
western world and also improved his English language.
as...
The true meaning
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Christmas unites
roughout the
May this Holy
e &son be filled
understanding
and' love.
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