The Hill: In today’s Parliament, agriculture is rarely on the radar

With few agricultural MPs on the Opposition benches, agricultural matters rarely come in that daily Question Period. Result: there is little pressure on the government to act

by BARRY WILSON

In January 2006, Canadians elected a Conservative government which arguably contains a higher percentage of rural and farm-connected MPs than any government since John Diefenbaker’s 1957 minority.

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