Lack of provincial allies has helped extinguish any hope that Ontario can persuade Ottawa to share the cost of provincially designed farm support programs
by BARRY WILSON
The end of any hope that the federal Conservative government will succumb to Ontario’s arguments that Ottawa should co-fund the Risk Management Program came in November at a Parliament Hill meeting.
Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz was there and Ontario Conservative MP Larry Miller, chair of the House of Commons agriculture committee, gave him the platform to deliver the verdict.