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Angry at the lack of a federal Tory buyout program, tobacco farmers turn to the Liberals.
Jump to full article: London (Ontario) Free Press (ca), 2008-04-04
Author: MONTE SONNENBERG, SUN MEDIA
Intro: Tobacco farmers tore a page out of the MPs playbook yesterday and "crossed the floor" to a new political party.
Nearly 150 growers gathered outside the Simcoe office of local MP Diane Finley to express their displeasure over the absence of a buyout program for tobacco quota.
Done there, they crossed Queensway West to the office of Eric Hoskins, the Liberal candidate in Haldimand-Norfolk in the next federal election, where many took out Liberal party memberships.
Brian Baswick of Delhi, spokesperson for the protesters, ripped up his Finley lawn sign and left it with Finley's staff. He signed Liberal membership papers across the Queensway.
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