MP should deal in fact

Dear Editor

Our so-called "representative" in Parliament, Gerry Ritz, does not believe for a minute oil has replaced grain on the rails.

This champion of the Prairies also claimed that PFRA's Indian Head Tree Nursery would be kept as a viable entity for 2013. Completely false. The fact is at the same time Ritz was actually stripping staff and resources, leaving the nursery with no possible way of continuing their valuable work.

Trees and their critical role in the quality of our atmosphere apparently are no longer required. Wait, Mr. Ritz has opened negotiations with the RM of Indian Head to take over the nursery! Except when asked, the RM had never heard anything about these negotiations and had never known they were involved until Ritz's announcement. False again.

The loss of the CWB was another boon to Canada's farmers, according to Mr. Ritz, only now we see prices shrinking and millions of bushels not delivered. The multi-national grain companies are chuckling as they calculate penalty charges for late contract deliveries, counting millions to be made without that nasty producer friendly wheat board.

So add another false statement, because if Mr. Ritz actually stumbled out of his Battlefords constituency office, and went three blocks to the rail yard, he would see that grain cars are the virtual needle in the haystack of oil cars, just as the rest of us have seen for the last year.

Lyle E. Comstock

Battleford