Canadian Wheat Board
How Ottawa abandoned our only Arctic port
Canada’s only Arctic deep-water port is now closed, leaving workers in Churchill puzzled and any talk of Arctic sovereignty feeling like empty rhetoric
Warning: not safe for work (outside city limits anyway)
The National Farmers Union looks at an ad based on a classic pin-up, and its interpretation is that the new, competitive Canadian Wheat Board must be struggling in a liberalized agricultural market:
The Royal Prerogative to Make Toast Taste Sweet
The Prime Minister’s Wheat Board pardons prompt concerns, but also this explanation of what justice does to the human taste buds.
By the powers vested in him
Stephen Harper announces that farmers who protested the Canadian Wheat Board will be pardoned.
Goodbye to all that
The Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly ends today. The Prime Minister is in Kindersley to celebrate. Ralph Goodale laments.
No, the Wheat Board’s not in the Constitution
Because it’s a little difficult to find on the Web, I’ve uploaded a PDF copy of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench decision on the former CWB directors’ application for an injunction against the demise of single-desk wheat and barley marketing. It contains setbacks within setbacks for the directors’ case: their constitutional argument that the dismantling of the single desk violated the rule of law isn’t serious enough to be considered, says Justice Shane Perlmutter, and even if it were, it doesn’t meet the urgency test for injunctive relief. Perlmutter’s take is, needless to say, very different from Federal Court Justice Douglas Campbell’s.
This year’s constitutional crisis
The Liberals want the Governor General the block the Canadian Wheat Board bill.
Conservatives to cut off Wheat Board debate in Senate
Move mirrors strategy adopted in the House
‘Fundamental constitutional imperatives’, the man says
On the Wheat Board, who should prevail in the contest between the Parliament of 1998 and the Parliament of 2011?
Government to proceed with Wheat Board despite ruling
Federal Court called the legislation illegal
‘Disregard for the rule of law’
The Federal Court has ruled that the government’s attempt to reform the Canadian Wheat Board violates the legislation that governs the board.
A variety of carryings-on
After QP this afternoon, the Speaker ruled on a pair of disturbances in the House, previously noted here and here.