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Darryl Fransoo, Chair of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers says it will be interesting to see if we get a deal done. He’s hoping the ministers hold tight when it comes to business risk management and tying it to all the environmental aspects the Feds want to jump in.
“Canadians are facing the highest inflation rate in decades, food prices are rising dramatically and those that can afford it least will be hurt the hardest,” said WCWG Chair Daryl Fransoo.
“With crop inputs doubling in price and then with a huge exporting nation of food like Ukraine being invaded currently, there is a legit chance that we could have a global food shortage,” Fransoo said. “The carbon tax just takes away our ability to grow more and feed more people.”
Daryl Fransoo, who farms near Glaslyn, Sask., said he’s relieved the dispute has ended between rail workers and the company, given the economy has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine involves two countries that supply 30 per cent of the world’s wheat.
Meantime, the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Chair Daryl Fransoo says they hold the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference accountable for the work stoppage. “At a time when the Canadian economy has been reeling from supply chain problems, COVID-19, the highest inflation in over a decade, and now the invasion of Ukraine, this lockout falls on the […]
“Many farmers across the Prairies are expecting the shipment of seed, fertilizer and other inputs in the coming weeks in order to start seeding” said Daryl Fransoo, a Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers.
CP Rail trains have ground to a halt across the country after thousands of workers began a long-anticipated work stoppage early Sunday morning.
The last major railway labor disruption was an eight-day Canadian National Railway Co strike in 2019. But in the past 12 years, there have been 12 stoppages due to poor weather, blockades or labor issues, according to the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.
“It is inconceivable that grain farmers would be facing a CP rail stoppage at this time. After a historic poor crop last year, devastating floods in BC, unseasonable winter conditions and now a war in Ukraine, grain farmers question whether the rail parties understand the impact of a stoppage at this time,” said Daryl Fransoo, […]
“It is inconceivable that grain farmers would be facing a CP rail stoppage at this time,” said Daryl Fransoo, the group’s Saskatchewan director.