For Immediate Release
March 9, 2005

Ontario’s Agriculture Minister is pitting farm group against farm group: Barrett

Queen’s Park - Ontario’s Agriculture Minister is pitting farm group against farm group and crop against crop, according to Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant MPP Toby Barrett.

“Why is it that you and your government insist on playing favours and pitting farm group against farm group?” Barrett asked Minister Peters during question period today.

Peters refused to answer the question but did say, “the Ontario Federation of Agriculture does not support what is happening today” – referring to the Rural Revolution tractor rally.

Earlier, Barrett was shouted down by government members who would not allow a series of 11 resolutions - handed to the Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant MPP by the Rural Revolutionaries gathered outside Queens Park - to be read into the record.

“Speaker, on a point of order, I rise to ask for unanimous consent to read the following resolutions into the record,” Barrett said before being shut down. However, Barrett and his P.C. colleagues successfully read the resolutions into the Legislative record in the form of petitions.

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For more information please contact MPP Toby Barrett at: 519-428-0446, 416-325-8404 or 1-800-903-8629