The Rural Voice, 1979-05, Page 19Perth
all sitting on 5 to 10 times the land
required. Waste, yes our greed, our waste,
and our inability to learn anything from
History will be our downfall.
to get established on new farms of their
own.
— legislation to prevent take-overs of
farm land by large corporations and
foreigners.
— establish upper limits on quota
ownershiporcon trol.
DAVID BR 1DSHAW LIBERAL
CANDI!)ATE IN PERTH
In 1978, 13% of ,i ' inadian's income was
spent on home prepared food, compared to
22% in 1947. People are still complaining
about rising prices. Compare Canada to
other countries. In Britain 28%, Greece
36%, Germany 23%.
Farming is most important to our
economey as it represents 17% of our
G.N.P 111910 a farmer fed himself and 10
others t -day he feeds Himself and 52
others. These are all impressive statistics,
particularly good for putting you fast
asleep. Speaking of sleep, governments at
all levels must wake up before it, tco late.
erosion of land. Lets take the map of
Canada, with 2 colored crayons, one black,
one red. Color in red all the agricultural
land, and then color in black the land we
are building factorys, houses, schools,
cities on. Yes the black color's goes over
the red. European planners in the 1860's
realizied very quickley with the population
explosion of the day, that farm land must
be conserved if people were going to
survive. European cities n...y seem crowd-
ed, but there'sa reason. Land = Food =
Survival. Canada is a perfect a a, irile of
bad land use planning. Look at int ;ara
Peninsula. Factories, housing, malls have
replaced those once beautiful fruit farms.
Closer to home, drive in Erie St., to
Stratford. Beautiful new modern factories
JOHN DAVIES, N.D.P. CANDIDATE
IN PERTH
The New Democratic Party is committed
to do all within its power to keep our farms
working and producing. Its goal for
agriculture are maximum food production
for Canada and a hungry world, and an
effective marketing system to ensure fair
and reasonable farm income.
In 1968, 50c of every dollar earned by the
farmer was used for production costs.
Today it has risen to 67c. The incomes of
farmers are expected to decline by 2% this
year, while costs are expected to rise by at
least 8%. Canadian farmers are falling
farther and farther into debt.
In its effort to bail out the farmer, the
New Democratic Party would begin with
the premise that the family farm is the
basic unit of agriculture, and that food
production should be for people first, not
profit. It wants farm families to survive on
the farm so that the rest of us may survive
at the dinner table.
As a candidate for election on May 22nd,
I . am committeed to support orderly
marketing and planned production to
eliminate the bust and boom economy
which has existed on the farm in the past. I
would work to provide:
— adequate loans for a variety of
agricultural purposes, bu• particularly to
enable young people to stay on the farm or
BILL JARVIS PROGRESSIVE -
CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE 'PERTH
Since the first of the year, I have had
lengthy meetings with two producer
groups in my county and a full day in
session with the Executive of the Perth
County Federation of Agriculutre.
Firstly, I reject emphatically the Prime
Minister's statement that Canadian
farmers are "complainers". He has failed
to distinguish the important difference
between complaint and legitimate concern.
At the useful and important meetings that I
have had with my farm producers, I was
briefed fully on a variety of legitimate
concerns, particularly those which agri-
culture regarded as ominous for the future.
These ranged from farm land prices to
financing, from cheese imports to the
availability and cost of replacement parts,
and from agricultural research to
veterinary and laboratory services.
The one common thread that I dis-
covered was that inflation in Canada is the
farmer's worst enemy. It has made our
' and •attractive to foreign investors; it has
.caused input costs to sky -rocket; it has
eroded the quantity and quality of agri-
cultural services. No one group, except
possibly pensioners on fixed incomes, are
more affected or threatened by our
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