Farmers’ wheat board vote doesn’t change anything, PM says

[CHIMO]

OTTAWA— Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday the May election, in which his party won the overwhelming majority of Western Canada’s rural seats, trumps a “so-called plebiscite” of farmers suggesting strong opposition to the government’s plan to terminate the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on wheat and barley sales.

The government didn’t include its CWB plans in a list of priority legislative items provided Monday by House leader Peter Van Loan for the autumn parliamentary sitting, though the minister made clear the election promise to end the monopoly is still valid.

“Western farmers voted for marketing freedom and that’s what they’re going to get,” Harper told the House of Commons in confronting New Democratic Party and Liberal criticism of the government’s plans.

Demands to end the monopoly, and allow western farmers to market their own products, is a long-standing Conservative cause that goes back to the early days of the old Reform party.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Farmers+wheat+board+vote+doesn+change+anything+says/5426670/story.html

What the hell is Harper trying to do?