Dear Editor
It's quite comical to see Minister Ritz's staff try to belittle anyone who has an opinion contrary to the minister or anyone who tries to get some information out of the minister. Case in point is the recent attack on Stewart Wells where the minister implies Wells is ignorant.
Why does the minister have to attack farmers? Why doesn't the minister simply answer their questions with concrete answers.
Was the minister ignorant when he promised farmers at a Manitoba meeting that they would have a vote on the future of the CWB prior to the federal election in 2011 and then after that election simply going about killing the single desk CWB without a farmer vote?
Was the minister ignorant when he spouted off the marketing freedom had led to increased barley acreage? In actual fact barley plantings are at a 50-year low now and with feed barely selling for approximately $2 a bushel now I wonder how much marketing freedom farmers can take?
Was the minister being ignorant when announcing with the prime minister about a pasta plant being built in Regina when still none exists there?
Is the minister now being ignorant when even his own marketing freedom brokers are taking/stealing in excess of $3/bushel from farmers and the minister is unwilling to do anything about it?
Was the minister being ignorant when he failed to present the CWB annual report to parliament on time and therefore broke a law he had created?
Is the minister being ignorant when he affirms support his governments agriculture policies but will not let farmers have a vote on any major changes?
The minister does not need to worry about the next election, he needs to deal with the mess he has made now.
Kyle Korneychuk
Pelly
