Former Canadian Wheat Board Directors Ask Supreme Court to Weigh in on Agency
Canadian Press DataFile -- EDMONTON, AB -- July 27, 2012 -- A new shot has been fired in the ongoing legal battle over the Canadian Wheat Board.Former directors of the board are asking the Supreme Court for leave to appeal a lower court ruling on the way the Harper government stripped the agency of its marketing monopoly.
Supporters of the board have been arguing the federal government didn't follow a law that required it to let grain farmers vote on the future of the wheat board.
A Federal Court judge ruled in favour of those who wanted such a vote, but that ruling was later overturned in the government's favour by the Federal Court of Appeal.
Last December, the Conservatives used their majority in Parliament to scrap the board's monopoly on marketing Western wheat and barley starting Aug. 1.
The federal government recently announced it will spend $349 million to help pay for the severance and pensions of wheat board employees as they leave the agency.
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