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16 THE RURAL VOICE
Gordon Hill
OFA's biggest accomplishment
came from the bottom up
withhold education taxes.
"To my dismay it carried," Hill
remembered somewhat sheepishly
during an interview with The Rural
Voice in June 2005.1 was sure we'd
cut our throats but it was just the
opposite."
he prospect that farmers would
T
withhold a large part of their
property tax put municipalities
in a bind because they would still be
required to pay school boards, who
had no ability to collect tax on their
own to meet their expenses. OFA
members at the local level visited
councils to explain that the farmers
weren't trying to pressure them but
were trying to get provincial help.
Farmers also wrote letters to the
editor to explain their situation.
Everywhere they turned MPPs ran
into protests over the issue. With a
provincial election coming up the
next year, the government came up
with a plan to give farmers a 25 per
cent farm tax rebate, an amount later
increased to 50 per cent.
Militancy was on display again in
the 1980s after the early years of the
decade saw interest rates skyrocket to
as high as 22 per cent. Farmers, who
had gone through a period of
expansion and increased debt, were
caught with loans that suddenly were
impossible to repay, recalled Gertie
Blake, a former active member of the
Federation who became OFA's field
representative for Grey and Bruce in
1987.
"Farm bankruptcies and evictions