A Manitoba judge has dismissed the last outstanding lawsuit stemming from Ottawa’s dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly.
In an Oct. 7 decision, Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Justice Chris Martin rejected a class action brought by Manitoba farmer Edward Andrew Dennis against the federal government and the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB’s) successor, G3 Canada Limited, over money farmers alleged was improperly withheld during the board’s transition away from its marketing monopoly.
The dispute arose from the former Conservative government’s 2011 decision to eliminate the CWB’s monopoly over wheat and barley marketing in Western Canada….