Dear Editor:
Both the Liberal Chretien and Conservative Harper governments are responsible for this loss. Port of Churchill Latest Casualty due to loss of Single Desk CWB.
It was a previous Liberal government that privatized the railroads and allowed the sale of the Port of Churchill and Hudson Bay rail line to a Denver-based company called OmniTrax. (1997). The Harper government knew that the chance of the Churchill port surviving after the termination of the Canadian Wheat Board was nil. The Wheat Board directed almost 95 percent of the grain going through the port. “Minister Ritz camouflaged the negative impact for the Port of Churchill by providing the subsidy,” states Jan Slomp, NFU president.
John Fefchak,
Virden, MB
