Agriculture rated not a word in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s speech and little more in the budget details
by BARRY WILSON
Farm leaders are in the business of being optimistic, always expecting or at least hoping that governments will recognize the flaws in their program offerings and that customers will understand farmers need a decent price to survive.
Once upon a time, say before 2003, federal budgets were the annual event that put their optimism about government to the test. Would there be increased spending, new programs, promises to fix programs that are broken?