WTO Upholds Ruling on Canadian Wheat Board (Bush loses)

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBT29KVIYD.html

WTO Upholds Ruling on Canadian Wheat Board
The Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) - The World Trade Organization on Monday rejected a U.S. appeal against an earlier finding that Canada does not violate international law in its wheat trade.
The WTO appeals body upheld a February decision by its dispute settlement body, which was asked last year by Washington to rule on the legality of the Canadian Wheat Board's operations.

The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based wheat board buys wheat and barley produced in Canada's western prairie provinces, at a price fixed by the Canadian government. American farmers argued that Canadian producers are being indirectly and unfairly subsidized.

In February, however, the WTO panel ruled that farmers - rather than the Canadian government - control the wheat board. <snip>

[TO Kid]

1. Bad news for Canadian farmers

The Wheat Board monopoly is absurd. Any organization that will jail a farmer for selling his crop to the highest bidder is a product of fascism.