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The legal battle over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board was back in a Winnipeg court room Tuesday, just as the marketing agency announced a round of layoffs.
A group of former Wheat Board directors is asking a Manitoba judge for an injunction to stop the implementation of the federal government?s law to end its monopoly over the sale of all wheat and barley grown in Western Canada. That law took effect last month and the eight farmer-elected directors, including chairman Allen Oberg, were dismissed.
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The former directors say the law should be suspended until a court rules on the validity of the legislation. They argue law is invalid in part because the government did not hold a vote among farmers.
?We?re asking that this injunction be granted so that the whole industry can step back and make the determination as quickly as possible,? Mr. Oberg said Tuesday outside the court.
Mr. Oberg said he and the other directors are paying the legal costs of the lawsuits with financial help from other farmers. And, he said even if they lose the current round of legal action they plan to keep fighting in court.
The farmers are clinging to a Federal Court ruling made in December that said the law was improperly adopted because the government failed to have a farmer vote. The government has appealed that ruling and it argues the court was merely making a ?declaration? and did not challenge the validity of the law.
Read more at http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/p...against-tories/article2305555/?service=mobile
A group of former Wheat Board directors is asking a Manitoba judge for an injunction to stop the implementation of the federal government?s law to end its monopoly over the sale of all wheat and barley grown in Western Canada. That law took effect last month and the eight farmer-elected directors, including chairman Allen Oberg, were dismissed.
For farmers, elusive benefits of a new wheat market
Grain firms prepare for a boom from Wheat Board?s demise
Farmers owed $15-billion, wheat-board suit says
The former directors say the law should be suspended until a court rules on the validity of the legislation. They argue law is invalid in part because the government did not hold a vote among farmers.
?We?re asking that this injunction be granted so that the whole industry can step back and make the determination as quickly as possible,? Mr. Oberg said Tuesday outside the court.
Mr. Oberg said he and the other directors are paying the legal costs of the lawsuits with financial help from other farmers. And, he said even if they lose the current round of legal action they plan to keep fighting in court.
The farmers are clinging to a Federal Court ruling made in December that said the law was improperly adopted because the government failed to have a farmer vote. The government has appealed that ruling and it argues the court was merely making a ?declaration? and did not challenge the validity of the law.
Read more at http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/p...against-tories/article2305555/?service=mobile