Statement made on 16 November 2011 by Senator Grant Mitchell
Hon. Grant Mitchell:
Honourable senators, one of the few Conservative Party agendas that is not hidden is its ideological obsession to kill the Canadian Wheat Board. The minister can continue to say that it will not die. This Canadian Wheat Board is going to die; it will cease to be, period.
Nowhere is that more evident than in this piece of legislation, where the government has reversed the right to appoint the board of directors and senior-most officials in what will be left of the Canadian Wheat Board after this legislation.
Why is it that this government is going to do that? Is it because they cannot just leave the Canadian Wheat Board mortally wounded, they have to squeeze every last drop of life out of it?
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