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By IAN ELLIOTT WITH a fresh majority mandate in hand, Canadian Prime Minister Ste- phen Harper said May 3 Canada can expect to see no surprises in the agen- da when his government takes office. Speaking to reporters for the first time after the election from Cal- gary, Alb., Harper said, “One thing I’ve learned in this business is that surprises are generally not well re- ceived by the public, so we intend to move forward with what Canadi- ans understand about us and I think what they’re more and more com- fortable with.” Later, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz indicated that this means the Conservative government will move to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its single-desk marketing control over western Canadian wheat and barley. “I don’t see the monopoly surviv- ing. It’s time we got into the 21st cen- tury out here in the west,” Ritz told news services last Tuesday. “Certainly, there will still be a role for the wheat board to play. Look at the marketing system they have around the world. They tell me they are the best, and I guess we’ll put that to the test,” Ritz continued. Harper has yet to announce wheth- er Ritz will retain the agriculture portfolio in the new Conservative Cabinet. He is expected to announce the Cabinet later this month. Parlia- ment is expected to open a new ses- sion by the end of May. Harper won his first majority May 2, with Conservatives taking 167 of the 308 seats in the House of Com- mons. To the surprise of many, the main opposition party will be the New Democratic Party, which took 102 seats. Liberals were cut to just 34 seats, while Bloc Quebecois almost vanished, taking only four seats. The last seat went to the Green Party, giv- ing it its first seat in Parliament. During his campaign, Harper laid out other elements in his agriculture plan for the new government. With Canadian farmers competing in the global market, Harper said last month the Conservative government will support farmers and provide access to new markets for produce grown throughout rural Canada. Elements in the agriculture plat- form include: • Defending supply management programs for dairy, poultry and eggs; • A five-year national farm and food strategy that will guide Cana- dian agriculture policy to ensure the survival of family farms, the highest standards of food safety and better access to domestic and export mar- kets for farmers across the country; • Easier access to the best fertilizers, pesticides and veterinary drugs, and • New access to export markets. These policy directions are beyond the promises contained in the feder- al budget proposed in March, which died with the election call. Those policies had included a two- year Agricultural Innovation Initia- tive priced at $50 million (Canadian), another $24 million to help the hog industry with a disease control strat- egy and a $100 million boost in the budget over several years for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to improve inspections. The government is expected to move to pass its budget before summer break in mid-June. Before then, Harper will need to name his Cabinet and open Par- liament with a throne speech laying out his legislative program. ■ owners under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution were violated when a 15 ft.-high wall of water was released and flooded their property,” according to a statement from the plaintiffs’ attor- ney, J. Michael Ponder of Cook, Barkett, Ponder & Wolz in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (Ponder explained that the “takings clause” of the Fifth Amendment bars the government from taking private property without due process of law.) The complaint asserts that the Corps did not have easements over property in the floodway that are re- quired before the Corps could be al- lowed to breach the levee at Birds Point New Madrid. “As a result, property owners are due compensation for the illegal tak- ing of their property and violation of their constitutional rights,” he said. ■ WHILE the tragedy of this year’s flood- ing illustrates the raw power of natu- ral disasters, there is fear in Missouri that additional political power will be brought to bear on land use in the Birds Point New Madrid floodplain. The Corps blasted the third hole in the levee at Birds Point New Madrid on May 5 to protect Cairo from the historic flood crest. The first breach, on May 1, opened the levee to allow water from the flood crest to spill onto the 133,000 acres of farmland and in- undate homes and buildings as well as roads and drainage ditches. The two additional breaches were in- tended to provide outflows to drain the water back into the river, but the high flood stage put that into question. Tom Waters, a farmer and president of the Missouri Levee & Drainage Dis- trict Assn., advised in a May 6 newslet- ter that recovery efforts should begin immediately to help with the loss of homes, businesses and crops. “Planning should begin now, even before the water recedes. Damaged farmland will require much work to bring it back into production.” He noted that before “the last hole was blown, some environmentalists have called for the area to be restored to its ‘natural habitat’ and not bring it back into agricultural production.” Meanwhile, owners of the flooded farmland wasted no time in filing a constitutional challenge. They filed a class action complaint against the Corps on May 3. The complaint “contends that the property rights of the farmers and land- New Canadian government sets ag agenda Levee breaches spark land use fear
