So some wheat farmers in Canada are whining because they have to face competition. Remember this means lower prices for all Canadians who consume wheat, but some people in the wheat business are complaining because they no longer have a monopoly with their inflated prices.
This is one of the areas for which I applaud Stephen Harper the most – the eradication of the Wheat Board – a soviet-style monopoly and price control mechanism which caused dramatically overpriced wheat for everyone. Sure it benefitted a handful of farmers, but at the expense of everyone else.
So now this group of cry-babies is trying to sue the government for $17 million, oops, my mistake, it’s actually $17 BILLION. That’s their loses? If they actually think they’ve lost $17 billion dollars, another way to look at this is buyers of their product saved $17 billion.
I can’t say I know everything about this whole issue. I just know it’s a widely-practiced strategy for large industries to try to have a monopoly so that they need not face competition. It makes the act of buying wheat away from this monopoly a crime. It’s an immoral act of force. I’m glad the government got rid of it. Now it’s time to get rid of all the other government monopolies!
Article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-won-t-hear-farmers-appeal-of-17b-wheat-board-lawsuit-1.3026578
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