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Portage Farmer Confronts Federal Ag Minister Andy Mitchel
2005-03-30
By: D Thomas



Portage La Prairie cattleman Jim Murray, drove to Winnipeg Tuesday night to attend a press conference organized by Federal Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchel. He told the minister the money is not enough to help those people who are in trouble. He says there is getting to be more of those guys every day. Banks are saying we have given as much as we can give. The $19.00 per head for cattle producers based on 2003 or $3.00 per acre isn't enough. He adds the worse this problem gets the less money is being directed toward it. Murray says producers don't want to look like beggars. He says put this money into slaughter plants and get them up. He adds the bureaucracy on this is appalling. Murray says he was disappointed the minister refused to answer his questions. He says he asked the minister how much of the $488 million has been put into slaughter plants. He said they have 2 plants up and going. Murray said he told Mitchell he had not answered his question because most of that $480 million is just a loan guarantee, there is no money out of pocket. Murray says he is involved with a group called Fair Market Beef that is launching a class action suit against R-Calf for 7 million dollars per day. He says in the 2 weeks they have been going they have already had R-Calf call them asking them to back off until after the July court date is heard.
 
Before you get counting your dollars from a R-CALF suit, you might want to consider a federal judge heard their arguements and ruled they had merit. You also need to realize R-CALF can say they presented their side of the story to Congress and a majority of them saw enough to vote as R-CALF asked.

Any ruling saying R-CALF slandered Canada is also saying they duped Judge Cebull and all those Congressmen. Good luck with that.
 
When Leo McDonnel says that we are slaughtering downer cattle, that is an out and out lie and it is slander against the Canadian beef industry. Of course being an R-Calfer, you may have come to a point where you may not understand the difference between the truth and a lie.
 
Sash, how can we help Jim Murray with this lawsuit, or even get on board.
 
Fair Market Beef that is launching a class action suit against R-Calf for 7 million dollars per day. He says in the 2 weeks they have been going they have already had R-Calf call them asking them to back off until after the July court date is heard.

It will be interesting to see where Leo and Bill come up for the money for this. Guess Pat Goggins will be selling alot of donated calves. This should be fun, I can't believe R-CALF would have the nerve to ask them to back off after the dirty tactics they've used in this whole affair. Some people's kids. :roll:
 

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