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Four people were elected
directors and delegates reported
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resolutions discussed at the
recent Ontario convention when
th e Huron Federation of
Agriculture met in Clinton
Thursday night.
Two McKillop township men,
Mery Smith and Gordon
Blanchard join the HFA executive
as directors, along with Merle.
Gunby of Ashfield and Gerry
Fortune of Turnberry. New
president Allan Walper, first vice
president Maurice Bean. and
second vice president Bev. Brown
were elected at the Federation's
annual meeting in November.
A push to .the federal
government for stricter tariffs to
protect Canada's agricultural
products and a plan to set upland'
use policies at the - county
, federation level were two of the
• main issues at the convention,
several delegates told the 30
members at the meeting,
Jake Van Wonderen of Varna
who was a convention delegate,
said provincial agricultural
minister William Newman had
been seeking meetings on tariffs
with the federal ministry of trade
and commerce but that two
scheduled meetings had been
cancelled. He said Mr. Newman
appeared sympathetic and asked
for the Federation's support in
getting federal authorities to
meet with h im.
"Of course you always get a
favourable reaction from
politicians when something'is not
their responsibility," Mr. Van
Wonderen said. provincial
' Treasurer Darcy .McKeough told
convention delegates that the
federal tariffs were outdated
because they were tie d to
specific amounts, not
percentages. • '
Federation members should
write to their MP's urging that
• federal provincial tariff
...negotiations get started, Mr. yan
Wonderen said. "Otherwise we
are going to have to get more
• militant and make tariffs a
• political issue." ,
Better tariff protection will
help save jobs and' help the food
processing industry, as well as
the farmer, he said.
The federal government is
negotiating tariffs internationally
on behalf of Canada right now,
Bev Brown pointed out and said
lots of letters from farmers would
make sure that agricultUre gets
its say .before it's all settled.
Media coverage of the
convention gave the impression
that 'the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture if backing off its
strong stand on the preseryatio .n
of farmland, some members said
and Merle Gunby asked what the
Convention's stand on the issue
actually was.
The OFA will reduce their
demand for a provincial land use
plan and set up land use
committees at the local federation
level, HFA president Walper
said. The OF Ahas always stressed
that farmers must be
compensated if their land has a
lower value because it's frozen in
agriculture. and that message
hasn't gotten across too well,
Maurice Bean said. •"I think it's
better policy because we can
affect the local secondary plans,"
the vice president said.
The convention decided that
tariff changes should be the
number one priority and
although, she said, the OFA is not
backing off the land preservation
issues, Miss Brown cited former
OFA president Gordon. Hill's
point that there's no sense
preserving farm land if farmers
can't afford to farm it.
A local land preservation policy
is ,fine in rural counties like
Huron but may not be enough in
areas like Niagara which face
terrific urban pressures, Gerry'.
Fortune commented. If the
Federation develops a county
land .use policy, they should make
sure that farmers attend the local
secondary plan meetings and
support it, her husband Doug
said.
Merle Gunby urged that
Federation • develop a policy
right away because the secondary
plan for his township, Ashfield, is
proceeding right' now.
The, province's Farm Income
Stabilization Plan will probably
pass the legislature, Bev. Brown
reported, but the Federation
would like to run along insurance
"principles. It should be a farmer's
"unemployment insurance
program, some protection against
labouring for nothing," Miss
Brown said. The OFA wants the
bill to cover all commodities, have
federal, provincial and fariner
contributions and to clearly state
that farm groups must be
consulted on its provisions.
Other resolutions which got
support from the 600 delegates,
20 of them from Huron, at the
OFA convention include stricter
trespassing laws with harsher
penalties for infringement; a
request that Bell Canada provide
a uniform farm rate for one and
two party lines, regardless of the
farmhouse's distance from a
central exchange; parity for
farmers' and rural residents'
Hydro rates; and setting up of an
OFA committee to study the need
for regulations to control soil
erosion.
Members at the'Huron meeting
supported a resolution that will be
considered ' at the next OFA
directors' meeting that committee
reports be mailed to. delegates
before each annual convention so
that they have time to study
them. Members also agreed that
any Individual Service Member
who wants to should ,be able to
subscribe to the minutes of
provincial directors' meetings by
paying the costs of the service,
There was no discussion on the
proposed property tax law
changes that would have the
province pay taxes on farm land,
when several cabinet ministers
wer at a convention • breakfast
session but Bev Brown said She
managed to buttonhole Mrs
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disappointment in, what Mrs.
Fortune called their "bloody
horrible" coverage of the
December 6 election in rural
areas. At the same time, Bev
Brown suggested, the station
should be congratulated for good
coverage of the OFA convention.
McKeoughtShe told-him werethat
Huron farmers wer against the
measure and he assured h er that
the tax reform proposals would be
quite different when they come
into the Legislature.
Members decided to send a
letter to CKNX expressing
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