To: Gord Bolton who wrote (84294 ) 4/8/2002 7:56:45 PM From: E. Charters Respond to Canadian Price is Set At World Price by the Saskatchewan Wheat board, which sits in Saskatoon. A group of 5 politicians from Ottawa and 5 farmers who are stakeholders decide on prices that year by running a fourier analysis program and predicting the price. This allows them to set grain quotas. It is actually a federal department but since Saksatchewan is supposed to constitutionally control its own resources and things like the wheat board and federal energy program are in fact unconstitutional, they call it the Saskatchewan Wheat Board in order to keep the farmers asleep and not ruffle political feathers. There are farmers in Saskatchewan who when lied to skillfuly by the government actually believe they get the best price from the Canadian government because they control the price, and guarantee a buy with their quotas. They point to the times when production is oversupplied and price falls to remind the farmers that they are better off making some money that year than going broke. They omit to mention that during that time, bread price does not change, grannaries can store wheat and flour for years, and cartels of manufacturers, mills and farmers, or co-ops could do the same thing as the government and still get better prices during drought for wheat farmed under better conditions. The Wheat Board is Canadian Communism dreamed up by prairie populist liberals.
