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Title: Harper pardons farmers arrested under old wheat board law
Category: Business
Posted By: RUEZ
Date: 2012-08-01 19:55:48
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

"In one case, it was the gift of grain to a 4-H club," Harper said.

He's a retired local farmer from around here and was a WCB director for ten years, that gift was 1, 1 bushel bag of wheat.

From another article:

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Jim Chatenay, one of the pardoned farmers, said he was "overwhelmed with happiness."

"Now we can have everything in our favour " It's just a glorious, wonderful day and this was well worth the wait."

The farmers were trying to get around a law at the time that said they had to sell their wheat and barley through the Canadian Wheat Board or get export permits from the agency.

Mr. Chatenay ran into trouble in 1996. The Alberta rancher was told to pay a $4,000 fine or face 64 days in jail for driving across the border to donate a bag of wheat to a 4H club in Montana. The case was in and out of court until 2002, when Mr. Chatenay was put behind bars.

"The time was long and slow. Played a lot of cards. Lockdowns were a little painful and scary "cause every once in a while we'd have to get moved around a little bit," he recalled.


In the end, Mr. Chatenay served 23 days. He joked that he got credit for good behaviour.

[Alta_redneck]

I'm sure if Wheat was $4000. / bushel even Saskatchewan farmers could figure out how to market their own grain.

[DrCaleb]

I wonder if Mr. Harper will be pardoning himself for breaking his promise to let Farmers decide the Wheat board's fate. And for breaking the legislation under which the wheat board was set up to begin with.

[Gunnair]

If they legalized pot tomorrow, would the pardons start flowing?

[Unsound]

Gunnair Gunnair:

If they legalized pot tomorrow, would the pardons start flowing?

Curt?

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

Gunnair Gunnair:

If they legalized pot tomorrow, would the pardons start flowing?

Curt?

Maybe, eh?

[RUEZ]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I wonder if Mr. Harper will be pardoning himself for breaking his promise to let Farmers decide the Wheat board's fate. And for breaking the legislation under which the wheat board was set up to begin with.

Who cares?

[bootlegga]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Who cares?

My first guess would be the 62% of farmers who voted to KEEP the Wheat Board...

[RUEZ]

bootlegga bootlegga:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Who cares?

My first guess would be the 62% of farmers who voted to KEEP the Wheat Board...

You think they will care if Harper gives himself an imaginary pardon for a crime that he hasn't been charged or convicted for? OK.

[Robair]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

I'm sure if Wheat was $4000. / bushel even Saskatchewan farmers could figure out how to market their own grain.

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Mr. Chatenay ran into trouble in 1996. The Alberta rancher was told to pay a $4,000 fine

Now read my sig and see if you can connect the dots.

[Alta_redneck]

Robair Robair:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

I'm sure if Wheat was $4000. / bushel even Saskatchewan farmers could figure out how to market their own grain.

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Mr. Chatenay ran into trouble in 1996. The Alberta rancher was told to pay a $4,000 fine

Now read my sig and see if you can connect the dots.

No dots to connect, do you think someone from the G & M knows the difference between a rancher and a farmer? He's a mixed farmer just like most farmers in Alberta. And very good at raising purebred Charolais or he was, now he's retired. Maybe if he could have marketed his crop the way he wanted to, his 2 boys could have seen a future in farming and would have stuck around.


http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-pardons-farmers-convicted-years-ago-of-selling-grain-in-the-us/article4456953/?service=mobile

When these evil criminal farmers were doing this, they could have gotten $9 / bushel in Montana, the friggin WB was paying them around $4.35

Oh and nice touch to throw a farmer in jail during harvest time.

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TODAY NEIGHBOUR'S ARE HELPING JAILED CANADIAN FARMER JIM CHATENAY BRING IN HIS FAMILY'S HARVEST

----- Original Message -----
From: Western Barley Growers Association
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: Bringing in the Harvest TODAY for Jim Chatenay


Don't Miss ... Neighbours and supporters bringing in the harvest for incarcerated Jim Chatenay, 59 of Penhold fined $2,500 or 62 days. He took a bushel of wheat to the U.S. and donated it to a 4-H club.

Neighbours rally today to bring in what is left of Jim and Olive Chatenay's harvest.

Jim is the elected director of the Wheat Board - District 2 who went to jail for Farmers for Freedom of "Choice"
FARM LOCATION: 9 miles west on Hwy 592 (Penhold overpass) -Right hand side of the road

Additional phone contact: Glen Goertzen 403/740-2069

Western Barley Growers Association
Agriculture Centre - 909 Irricana Road N.E.
Airdrie, AB T4A 2G6
Phone: 403/912-3998
Fax: 403/948-2069 (Airdrie)
http://www.wbga.org
Email: wbga@wbga.org

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7844

[Robair]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

When these evil criminal farmers were doing this, they could have gotten $9 / bushel in Montana, the friggin WB was paying them around $4.35

Comparing spot and pool prices only works on the dim.

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Oh and nice touch to throw a farmer in jail during harvest time.

That's when he broke the law.

This will have the effect of transfereing money from crop producers bank accounts.

[jeff744]

I guess Harper is only tough on the stuff he makes a crime.

[Curtman]

Unsound Unsound:

Gunnair Gunnair:

If they legalized pot tomorrow, would the pardons start flowing?

Curt?

Probably. Maybe we should pardon Louis Riel too after all. What the heck, yeah he broke the law, but he felt it was justified. He was fighting for freedom and equality.