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Article: Strahl muzzles wheat board.(News)(Canadian Wheat Board)
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- Feedstuffs
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- October 16, 2006
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CANADA'S Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl has taken the highly unusual step of muzzling the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) from public comment in the raging political debate across Canada over the future of CWB's single desk selling powers.
Using so-called "orders in council," Strahl told CWB that "it shall not expend funds, directly or indirectly, on advocating the retention of its monopoly powers, including the expenditure of funds for advertising, publishing or market research, and it shall not provide funds to any other person or entity to enable them to advocate the retention of monopoly powers of (CWB)."
Strahl is leading the Conservative government's ...