To the Editor:

The three questions Minister Strahl has introduced for the barley plebiscite and the CWB are very honest, fair and real questions. Questions that were NOT given to producers from the government of the day that forced all producers into the CWB’s iron fisted monopoly back in the days of it’s inception. Remember the days when producers trying to freely market thier own products were jailed for being free-traders in a free country?

The fear mongering that is being promoted by the National Farmers union and supporters of the left wing groups is nothing more than the claws of socialism trying to drag all producers DOWN to a level of incompetance in world trading that has absolutly no place in the 21st century. This kind of mentality does not and has never promoted any value added gains, transportation efficiancies or producer drive for improvments in our industry.

The decision for choice in grain marketing in the 21st century is one that has merit and simple common sense. The time has come for agri-business to join the rest of the free world in trade and economic freedoms, not to be trapped behind the government boards that have stalled producers and value added companies from gowing and improving this industry and adding to each citizens quality of life in this country.

Lorne Ridgway
Avonlea, Saskatchewan