00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.867149 CaOODSP 20221107162232 cr ||||||||||| 190116s1981 oncd #ot f|0| 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- EC24-11/I-6-1981E-PDF Harvey, D. R. Government intervention and regulation in the Canadian grains industry [electronic resource] / by D.R. Harvey. Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada, 1981. [244] p. : charts. Technical report - Economic Council of Canada, 0225-8013 ; no. E/I-6 Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate]. "June 1981." "This Technical report was jointly sponsored by the Economic Council of Canada and The Institute for Research on Public Policy"--Preface. Includes bibliographic references. "Grain is the largest sector and provides the lion's share of foreign exchange earnings in the Canadian agricultural sector. The Canadian Wheat Board, the Grains Handling and Transportation System, and the Western Grains Stabilization Act are described and analyzed as they are the main institutions and legislatively sanctioned regulatory mechanisms affecting grain producers. The grains industry regulatory system which has evolved over the past half century was designed to ensure that grain producers had equality of access to grain markets which have historically been over-supplied. With a rail transportation rate fixed by law in 1898 and present the present system of regulation, the grading, collection and transportation system for grains is now unable to meet the demand of a world market which is able to absorb all of Canada's export potential"--Summary, p. xii. Includes summary in French. gccst Regulations gccst Agriculture gccst Grains Institute for Research on Public Policy. Economic Council of Canada. Technical report (Economic Council of Canada) 0225-8013 ; no. E/I-6. (CaOODSP)9.855538 PDF 20.21 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/ecc/EC24-11-I-6-1981-eng.pdf