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area aren't using recreational
facilities because they've lost
community spirit, he said. "That's
the worst thing that can happen in a
community — it's the worst thing
that can happen in a nation."
• On fighting for what you think is
right: "When I was helping organize
the wheat producers they called us
communists." But the organizers
didn't sit back and take that nonsense
because they were organizing under
powers granted by the democratic
provincial legislatures and
parliament, he said, "but when you
read the articles in the paper and you
read the things about how bad these
marketing boards were, how bad
supply management was you'd
hardly know what country you were
in."
• About two -price system for
exporting milk: "I think it will
destroy the things that we fought for.
We'll go back 50 years.
"We worked like hell to build the
best dairy organization in the world;
the purest dairy foods in the world. If
you were efficient you could make a
good living. Every link in that (milk
production and processing) chain
could make a profit. There's nothing
wrong with that kind of system
making a profit."
The demise of supply
management started with the 1984
Uruguay Round of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Not
one farm organization or one political
party asked for the changes, he said.
It was big business that wanted the
rules changed.
• About the value of supply
management: "Look what you're
selling your corn for. Look at what
you're selling your oilseeds for. Look
at what you're selling your wheat for.
"But look at what you're selling
your milk for. Look at what you're
selling your eggs for. Look at what
you're selling your chickens for.
Because you've got supply
management.
"You've got these people running
around and saying 'the market will
take care of us'. Like hell it will. It
never has and it never will."
• On food security: Some people
argued Canada didn't need a dairy