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24 THE RURAL VOICE
conditions that brought about
marketing boards have changed, but
Gaunt has words of caution.
"It's no different, and the fact of
the matter is that we need the
instruments to help the farmers more
than ever because of the globalization
that's taking place. On one hand you
have agri-business getting much
bigger — merging, amalgamating,
buying out other lesser opponents
and becoming very powerful in the
marketplace. On the other side of it
you have farmers and their
commodity boards saying 'I'm not
sure that marketing boards are doing
the job for me. I'm a free enterpriser
and I want to produce and nobody's
going to tell me how much I'm going
to produce or at what price. I want to
be free to make my own choices and
do what I want and ship into the
export market — that's where it's at.'
"This whole attitude is seeping
into supply management and
government is pushing it. They're
saying 'You've got to get into the
export market'. They forced the
chicken board to do it. They forced
Dairy Farmers of Ontario. They're
forcing the (Ontario Broiler and
I -latching) Egg and Chick
Commission (of which he's been
chairman since 1985) to do it —
although not as aggressively as the
other two because we're a smaller
hoard."
While farmers of the 1960s
and early 1,970s had to
battle hard for that clout,
they also had champions in the
political arena, the late Bill Stewart
as Ontario's minister of agriculture
and larger -than -life Eugene Whelan
at the federal level. That kind of high
profile leadership is also missing
these days.
"Politicians have been so captured
by globalization — the federal
government has sold the provincial
governments on globalization, on the
fact we've got to have free and open
markets. We've found out that free
trade doesn't mean fair trade — the
United States impresses us every day
of the week with how they want free
trade but they don't want fair trade."
American internal politics still
plays a huge part in international
trade. Farm prices dip, farmers put
pressure on their politicians in
Congress or the state capitals and
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