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Rideau Lakes Union LIBRARY Directors of North Lantern wish to express their delight and sincere thanks upon receiving a generous _ 2 ‘ : donation from Rideau Crafts. " ' ’ " i A It will enable us to inprove our working conditions, and the quality of the Lantern. The Rideau Lakes Union Library A , V. . _ \‘ The Board Trustees wish to express _ g . _ Leeds their appreciation for the . . generous donation received Margaret Olley of Rideau Crafts presenting a from Rideau Crafts. The cheque to Jane Monaghan,Board Chairman R.L.U.L. Board accepts the donation with some sadness because it means the demise of Rideau Crafts but is pleased to be able to recognize the contribution of Rideau Crafts to our community by providing the Rideau Crafts collection members helped to layout the of books at our branch librar- . w . paper in the early days.They ies. ‘ leave many active and A successful groups to mark Special thanks to those ‘ _, 3 their presence and they Directors and members 0f " surpassed their early dreams Rideau Crafts who worked of improving the quality of so hard for so many years life in North Leeds. to encourage. and promote our crafts and crafts people. Rideau Crafts were sponsors of the Lantern and their Vera Slemon of Rideau Crafts making the presentation to Brys Scovil, Lantern editor 5. i i REMEMBER THE TERRY FOX RUN SEPTEMBER 17 RIDEAU LAKES UNION LIBRARY flggrs of operation Branch Tues. . Thurs. - Sat. Librarian DELTA 1:30-42 7‘9 p-m- 9-11 a.m. L. Braidvood 928-2991 ELGIN - . . . . . . . 10-1 p.m. . . Keates . . . . . Haskins 359-5315 LYNDHURST 928-2277 PORTLAND 272-2832 SEELEY'S BAY 387-3909 10-1 p.m. . HcHachen 11-3 p.m. ll:30-2:30 . Bralduood l:30-A:30 lO-l p.m. . Simpson To the Editor ' This is an open in 1965 starting with the letter to Hon. DOD Ontario Milk Marketing Board, underpinnings would stay intact in essence item number two Mazankowski, Minister Of the Federal Subsidy in 1968 for the dairy industry. We under supply management, Agriculture. and Market Share Quota in had a five year dairy POHCY has been put on hold for twenty Hon. Don Mazankowski 1971 and the cost of production in place made by former months. Also because the Minister of Agriculture Agriculture Minister John management and its prices for twenty months, Room 209-8 House of Commons Ottawa, Ont. KIA 0A6 Dear Mr. Mazankowski, I am writing this letter over the recent decisions your government has made regarding the capping of industrial milk prices for twenty months. Let me introduce myself. I was born in Holland, immigrated to Canada in 1950 when I was five years old with my parents and five brothers and sisters. My Dad wanted to be a farmer and couldn't do so in Holland. He came to Canada as a farm labourer, rule of entry at that time, and did so for four years. He then worked with an older farmer in a 50/50 partnership for two years. He then bought the farm for a dollar down, that gave him 21 cows, 15 young stock, 3 horses, 150 hens and 2.00 acres (100 tillable). I joined him in 1964. We were industrial shippers of milk. We have struggled to imprcve and expand our farm over the last twenty-five years. Stability came to the industry formula. Dairy farmers were finally able to make plans, they were able to see a future and build on it accordingly. Sons came home and either took over the farm or joined their fathers, as I did, and everybody was optimistic. The government was quite content with the way things were going for the dairy farmer. We haveasystem that was in place that gave a farmer a fair return for his investment and labour, and consumers were content with a stable price for our product, and no more surplus of dairy products. At one point, Canada had a surplus of 350,000,000 pounds of butter, a whole year's need (mid to late 1960's) and who knows how much skim milk powder. Our system was the envy of the world. Up to this date 22 countries have studied our ways and used all or part of our marketing system. Enter Brian Mulroney and his deregulation staff, Free Trade and G.A.T.T. negotiations. During the election of 1988 you stated quite clearly that supply Wise which you said would not be changed. The election is over and you have started to break you commitments. ltruly‘ do not believe that you understand how supply management and orderly marketing works. Supply management has three ingredients: 1. Producers have quotas assigned to them to fill domestic requirements for industrial milk plus a small 2.2% for export purposes. 2.. That the government use a cost of production formula properly indexed to insure that efficient producers receive adequate and stable returns. Thirtyâ€"five percent of dairy farmers considered to be efficient under the present system. 3. That the government have border controls to prevent the dumping of subsidized dairy products frqm other countries which is allowable under Article 11 of G.A.T.T. Without any of these three items we do not have effective supply management. The government has decided in April to cap industrial milk ‘ ‘O...0lltlllltillltAt‘lvll-IAI!Inboil-l formula has not been properly indexed since February of 1988 we as dairy farmers will be accepting a price freeze for thirtyâ€"two months. No other person or industry in Canada would accept these conditions. I would like to know from you Mr. Mazankowski, why the government has made these changes in dairy policy. We are not a problem on the world market, we provide a quality product at a fair and equitable price. We have our house in order and would like you to do the same with yours. My oldest son has recently started farming with me and we would like to carry on the tradition of the family farm. I believe the government has a hidden agenda for marketing boards and that this is a start of a ten year program to dismantle our system. Farmers are starting to wake up and take note. We fought hard to get this system and we will fight harder to keep it! Yours truly, Ron Visser â€" Chairman Dairy Committee National Farmers Union