The Rural Voice, 1995-05, Page 55Ken Furlong Tommy
Cooper Award
winner
BY CATHY LAIRD
Ken Furlong of Grey County was
the winner when the Bruce County
Federation of Agriculture hosted the
bi-annual meeting of the Tommy
Cooper Award and the Meet the
Members dinner March 31 at the
Elmwood Community Centre in
Elmwood.
Furlong, President of the Grey
County Federation of Agriculture,
thanked the Grey County Pork
Producers for the nomination.
"Families and people make the
success in the farming community
happen," he stated. "Keeping up
with farmers is the challenge to farm
groups."
Paul Steckle, MP for Huron -Bruce
and Ovid Jackson, MP for Grey -
Bruce addressed concerns from briefs
presented by BCFA and affiliated
commodity groups. The brief from
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Ken Furlong accepts the Tommy
Cooper Award for his contribution to
agriculture.
the BCFA identified beef imports,
milk, unemployment insurance,
firearms control, rural health care,
and weather offices as concerns. "It
is absurd to increase the (beef)
import quota by 40 per cent from
76,000 tonnes to 110,000 tonnes,"
Steckle stated. "Farmers have a good
reason to believe that we broke trust
with them. We are no closer to the
resolution of this issue," he
continued, and urged attendance at
meetings and input from the farm
producers.
He assured the farmers of his
support and stated that there is no
surplus of beef in Canada as the U.S.
buys as much beef as is available.
"The U.S. needs boners to
supplement their beef supply there,"
he continued. "Supply and demand
doesn't rule any more. We should
leave the quotas in place ... the U.S.
has not filled their quotas in years."
Milk: The brief said the Canadian
government should be "very tough in
upholding the intent of world trade
agreements — GATT should take
precedence over NAFTA."
Unemployment Insurance: "Farm
families should not pay unemploy-
ment insurance if they will not be
allowed to collect benefits." Tony
Morris, regional director from Bruce
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