Editor, the News;
Re: Area farmer speaks out in favour of C.W.B.
I seems to me Mr. Tanis has a strange misconception of what democracy is.
The government of Canada is not out to dismantle the C.W.B. They just want to give Western farmers the right to market their grain as they see fit. That’s democracy.
And don’t worry Mr. Tanis. The supporters of the C.W.B. can still sell their grain to the C.W.B. if they so wish. Again, that’s democracy. And why are the supporters of the C.W.B. so worried that it can’t survive?
If they are doing such a great job they will be able to survive. What are they worried about? Is there something they’re not telling us?
And another thing. In the past when some farmers sold their grain, bypassing the C.W.B., they were arrested, put in jail, their property confiscated and treated like the worst criminals. You call that democracy? And their fellow farmers stood happily by and let it happen.
I call that coercion. That’s plain, downright outrageous and the C.W.B., who persecuted those poor suckers, should be deeply ashamed.

George Van
COALDALE