Jan 12 2009
Dear God
Things are worse in Canada than you may think.
13 years ago, in the spring of 1996, Jim joined a small group of farmers at the Alberta/Montana border. Some had tandems, some had semi’s, some were in pickup trucks. Jim had the family van and in the back of it he had something truly dangerous, a weapon of mass anarchy and destruction, … a bag of Wheat.
He took that bag of wheat across to the US and he donated it to a 4-h club. That was Jim’s act of defiance, that was his act of civil disobedience, and that is what ultimately got him put in a Canadian jail. What others had just talked about doing, Jim and his friends actually did.
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Ludicrous. We in Canada jailed some of our farmers for selling some of their own wheat(or even giving it away). All the more absurd when you understand that if that farmer grew his wheat in another province such as Ontario, what he did would have been perfectly legal. Even more absurd when you know that it applies only to wheat and some barley. Corn, soybeans, oats, canola, etc are his own to sell to whomever he choses.
The origin of this injustice dates back to the 1930s, when Canada adopted the policy to ensure a ready supply of affordable wheat to the masses, the farmer be damned.
Rather long history of farmers fighting the ’system’..medieval agrarian revolts, the US grange in the 1800s, pig slaughter and milk dumping in the depression. Guess the Canadian wheat farmers are part of a long tradition….