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Dairy farmers are milking Canadian consumers

(January 16, 2001) Canadian dairy products, thanks to our ingenious system of milk marketing boards, are among the best bargains available — if you’re an American corporation. Americans and others who operate in international markets, can buy Canadian cheese and other Canadian milk products at free- market prices or less. That’s because Canada’s milk marketing system — a byzantine complex of quotas and other controls — overcharges Canadians for milk and milk products whenever it can, and then uses the profits to subsidize both dairy farmers and exporters. Continue reading

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Presentation at Simcoe County Farmer’s Week in Barrie, Ontario

(January 12, 2001) It’s a pleasure being here in Simcoe County, at a conference where so many of the presentations are focused on how to improve your technology and your business, to become competitive. That is the key to the future of the dairy industry, and I commend you and the organizers for it. It will be a bright future if you keep your eye on that ball. Continue reading

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Nuclear debate

(January 8, 2001) Re: Nuclear Power has a Future and Not in a Free Market World, Dec. 28. The two contestants in your debate leave one confused as to whether nuclear electricity is alive or dead. A search of the Internet provides some interesting data. Continue reading

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Pushing wind

(January 5, 2001) I am writing to correct some false assertions you made in a recent editorial (Tilting at Windmills, Jan. 2). Continue reading

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Nasty neighbours and the rise of housing tyrants

(January 2, 2001) Neighbours don’t get along. They fight over parking spaces, they fight over the way their yards are kept, they fight over new additions to their houses and they fight over the rowdy late-night parties their teenagers hold. Continue reading

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