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Attacks chain store power
After seven years as president
of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, Varna farmer
Gordon Hill withdrew from
running for an eighth term
Monday, but not without taking
swipes at two traditional ad-
versaries.
During the opening session of
the OFA annual convention here,
he took shots at the Ontario
government and supermarket
chains.
He warned of the "awesome
authority" of chain stores which
control 67 percent of Ontario's
retail food business, charging
they "sucker" consumers into
stores with low-priced specials.
"Once lured into the store, the
unwary consumer is then rabbit -
punched with higher prices on
other products cunningly located
and seductively packaged," he
said.
Chains get larger as they
"gobble up" competitors, said
the Varna farmer, citing in-
terests of George Weston Ltd. in
the retailing of foods.
Besides interest in Loblaws,
the Weston firm controls Red and
White, Power, Lucky Dollar,
Westfair Foods, Economart,
Superior Food Stores and Buy'n
Save.
Mr. Hill also renewed his at-
tack on the Ontario government
for what he claims is inaction on
preservation of agricultural land.
"For 13 years the federation
has been leading the fight for
intelligent pand use planning .. .
Now many other groups are
demanding preservation of good
land," he said.
"It's really not surprising that
a lot of farmers are now won-
dering if the OFA policy is right
. They're beginning to feel like
patsies."
Mr. Hill was conciliatory
towards consumers for the most
part, claiming farmers and
consumers need each other.
"We have nothing to gain by
public quarrels and fighting each
other in the press," he said. While
consumer spokesmen at the
provincial level of the Consumers
Association of Canada are
reasonable, some are not, he
said.
"Self-styled consumer
advocates, particularly at the
federal level, have not been as
responsible," he said.
He said that former Food
Prices Review Board Chairman
Beryl Plumptre should have
attacked the middle -men in the
food chain rather than marketing
boards.
Marketing boards are "the only
defence" farmers have against
processors and food chains
setting prices, he said.
However, Mr. Hill warned
marketing boards which deal in
quotas should keep the cost of
those quotas to a minimum to
prevent artificial price increases.
"Society grants great powers
to farmers in the form of
marketing boards," he said.
"The objective (of such boards)
kept in line, "public resentment" bursts" of attention to
will persist. agricultural problems, rather
Federal Opposition leader Joe than producing long-term
Clark, the convention's keynote policies.
speaker, Monday called for more "The role of a Conservative
farmer .participation in decision- government would be to reduce
making and Iess political in- elements of uncertainty in
fluence. agricultural prices," he said. stimulating agricultural exports rose substantially, the volume of
He accused the federal Mr. Clark also said the "Between 1971 and 1975, while Canadian agricultural exports
government of only "sporadic government should aim more at• the prices of many commodities (continued on page 13)
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