Feds? appeal of CWB ruling gets court date

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A Federal Court ruling criticizing the federal government?s legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board?s single marketing desk for Prairie grains will go to appeal three weeks from now.

The Federal Court of Appeal will hear the federal government?s appeal of Justice Douglas Campbell?s December 2011 ruling at 9:30 a.m. on May 23 in Ottawa.

Campbell?s ruling had been sought in two separate filings for judicial review, one by the CWB itself and the other by a farmer group, Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board.

While Campbell?s ruling did not specifically call a halt to the progress of Bill C-18, the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, it did describe the legislation?s proposed changes as "an affront to the rule of law."

The CWB and FCWB had sought Campbell?s opinion of C-18 as it related to section 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act. C-18 was written to amend and, eventually, repeal the Act.

Section 47.1 is the piece of the CWB Act requiring a producer vote and consultation with the CWB?s directors before changes can be made to the CWB?s marketing mandate.

Read more at http://agcanada.com/daily/feds-appeal-of-cwb-ruling-gets-court-date/
 
 
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