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Release 6:00 AM July 12, 1996
CANADIAN FARMERS FOR JUSTICE 
  Box 16, Group 620 SS6, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2C 2Z3
To obtain Dual Marketing for Western Farmers by defending our legal rights.
FAMILY FARMER IN CELL WITH 2 MURDERS AND AN ARMED ROBBER
FARMERS AND MCMECHAN FAMILY APPEAL TO HEARTS AND COMMON
SENSE OF PRAIRIE PEOPLE FROM REGINA ON ALBERT STREET
Andy McMechan of Lyleton, Manitoba is in Cell Block 'A', Maximum security of
the Brandon Correctional Institute under instructions from Ralph Goodale,
Minister of Agriculture. His crime is exporting his own grain, grown on his own
farm, without permission of Ottawa's monopoly Canadian Wheat Board.
Carol Husband has an organic farm at Wawota Saskatchewan.
"Too many criminals in this country are going free while good people are being
persecuted by the government. We're here to appeal to the hearts and to the
common sense of Canadians".
She continues "should a hard working family farmer be incarcerated in a small
room with 2 murders and an armed robber? If commerce is a crime in Canada,
perhaps all small business people are on the wrong side of the bars!"
53 Minutes Symbolizing 53 Years
"The Canadian Wheat Board has been obstructing the flow of commerce in
Western Canada for 53 years "says organizer and farmer Norm Colhoun of
Lumsden, Saskatchewan. "We apologize for the brief inconvenience but each
minute of our press conference here on Albert Street represents one whole year!"
 "Ralph Goodale has taken over 2 years to review Western Grain Marketing.
Ironically had he acted sooner, the so-called crime Andy committed would not be a
crime at all. Goodales's Review panel recommended free markets for feed barley
and particularly free markets for unusual varieties like Andy had which the CWB
had no market for anyway."
Colhoun concludes "Andy waited as long as he could before exporting a load with
his tractor and wagon. That is why he is being held today."
Farmers and the McMechan family humbly appeal to the people of Canada to tell
Ralph Goodale to do 2 things:
1. Immediately implement the minor reforms of his own appointed Grain
Marketing Panel.
2. Free Andy McMechan. He is not a danger to anyone except maybe to Ralph
Goodale's power.