HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-07-09, Page 7Joe Daunt, a Perth County cattleman,
warned Turner not to listen to task forces.
The -Liberals -sent &task force on agriculture
across the country to collect data last year.
If you are going to listen to all the
bellyachers and complainers who come out
to these task foces, they will lead you down
the garden path," said Daunt. He told
Turner to remember what happened to Den-
nis Timbrell, the former agriculture
minister in Ontario who made himself
available and listened tb complaining
farmers. Timbrell lost his bid to become
leader of the provincial Conservative party
when delegates from farm lobby groups
threatened by his policies. withdrew their
support from his leadership.
Daunt said there are a few farmers,who
are doing well and they need to get out and
tell politicians that they are doing well.
"Make sure we are playing on a fair field,
then leave us alone to run our business," he
' suggested.
Daunt said he has the greatest sympathy
'for farmers who are losing their farms
because it is„ more than losing a job or a
business. It's a way of life. He commended
the Farmers in Transition program of •the
.provincial government and said the federal '
government's program requires more
scope. Farmers need someone to sit down
and listen, someone to accompany them to
the bank. ,
McKillop Township farmer, Jack
Flanagan, second vice president of the
Huron County Cattlemen, said he supports
free trade. "We have to have open war with
the United States.'We should be thinking in
terms of a world market."
Bruce County pork` producer John
MacAuley however, is concerned about
trading relations with the United States.
"Supposedly we have free trade (in the pork
industry), but it hasn't prevented the U.S.
from putting countervailing duties on our
product. What does this say about what is to
come if we move to free trade with the
United States.."
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necessary to assist in accommodating the
students from EcoleSt. Marie at St. Joseph,.
west of Zurich, which is now closing its
doors to the elementary students in the
area.
A request from Napoleon,cantin of RR2,
Zurich (St. Joseph) to be the custodian ,of
any records or registers of the school, was
approved. The registers for the last three
years must be kept in the board's hands..for
the present,
Cantin has the St Joseph Archives which' '
houses his extensive collection of the
ancestors' history of the French Settlement
at St. Joseph and records and pictures of a
former Catholic school.
Cantin will not be given ' the ° school
registers- and books. He will only have
custody of them as long as he has the
archives.
Ellen Schneider was hired as French im-
mersion teacher at St. Aloysius School,
Stratford, effective Sept. 11. Francine
Quesnel-Briand withdrew from this position
to which she had beeh hired on Mar. 24.
Anne Marie Murphy was hired as French
as a second language teacher at St. Joseph's
School, Clinton -effective Sept. -1: - -
Anita Renders to be transferred to full
time French as a second language, teacher
at -Precious Blood School at Exeter and
Principal's Relief, Effective September 1.
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BY SHARON DIETZ
A Brussels area broiler farmer who
believes in freeenterprise told Liberal
Leader John Turner he questions whether
supply management on a quota system is a
viable way to maintainthe family -farm.
'Ross Procter attended a meeting of local
farm lobby organizations and commodity
groups at the John Westbrook farm in
Goderich Township on Tuesday, when John
Turner visited the area on his summer tour -
to meet the public and representatives of
such groups.
Procter said he has poultry and does mix-
ed farming so he has experience with both
supply management and free market
systems. He began broiler farming in 1956
before the quota system was introduced so
he also has experience before and after the
introduction of supply management.
Supply management works, but only for a
few, he said citing the+example of the five or
six producers who control the quotas for
broiler production. ka
"There is a profit but if you capitalize the
value of the quota, you don't make a profit.
We make a profit from the value of the quota
but anyone who starts out today operates in
a non-profit situation." said Procter.
What farmer can'afford the half a million
dollars to buy his quota and facilities, asked
Procter who said he cannot sell to his sons
"because it won't pencil out."
Large scale type farming artifically pro-
tects the Industry, said Procter who
wonders how wonderful a system supply
management really is.
"Government subsidy condemns us all to
a mediocre price," said Procter who sug-
gested the industry move to a free market.
He admitted there would, be attritions.
"It's hard talk, but will you have a viable
business if you constantly 'provide subsidy
and keep everybody in the'business and over
produce so no one can make a living .." he
asked.
'Procter said he doesn't.feel any different
about his daughter and her husband who are
in the restaurant business where there is
between 10 and 15 per cent who go' broke
every year: In farming there were 500
bankruptcies last year and "we can't afford
to keep them in farming," said Procter.
Maurice Foster, 'federal Liberal
agriculture critic, commented on Procter's
remarks saying there is a tremendous pro-
blem with value of quota, but he wonders
where the free market is in grain, a com-
modity which has been the victim of the cur-
rent trade war with the European Economic
Community.
Foster said with all the difficulties there
are with a supply management system, ver-
tical integration in. Canada is in no way as
bad as it .is in the United States, where you
• have a large plant in the Carolinas and
Georgia shipping eggs all over Canada and
the United States. •
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Federal Liberal party leader John Turner posed for this picture with a group of young
clowns and commented that the scene reminded him of the House of Commons in Ottawa.
The clowns were much in evidence at federal riding association's Lunch in the Park with
Turner event here Tuesday. (photo by D., .'e Sykes)
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The Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board meeting held in
Dublin onlJuly 7, accepted the tender of Nith
Valley Construction for the renovations at
St. Michael Secondary School, the newly
established Catholic School in Stratford
which will open the first of September.
The tender for $43,694 was the lower of two
tenders received. Superintendent of Educa-
tion John McCauley remarked the comple-
tion of this work will finalize the extensive
renovations carried out at the school to
prepare it for its new use.
The plans for the work at St. Boniface
School in Zurich were approved. The work is
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