Dear Editor,While Minister of Agriculture Strahl says his government is offering to Western barley farmers “choice on how they market their grain while preserving a strong, viable, yet voluntary Wheat Board”*, if there are economic analyses backing his words he has not brought them forward.

There are findings that the effectiveness of the Canadian Wheat Board in its present role is due to its acting as agent for all growers.

Destroying that which is functioning well through implementing change is the antithesis of conservatism. Improvement in what exists is most certainly desirable but not far reaching structural change on the basis of unsubstantiated opinion.

Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls, Ontario