Jump to full article: Brantford (Ont) Expositor (ca), 2008-05-05
Author: Posted By Daniel Pearce
Intro: Liberals say they will try to bring the plight of beleaguered tobacco farmers to the floor of the House of Commons in Ottawa this week in an emergency debate.
Brant MP Lloyd St. Amand said his party will ask the speaker of the House to call a special session to discuss an exit program to help growers leave their shrinking industry.
Last week, St. Amand and Liberal Agriculture critic Wayne Easter successfully pushed through a motion in Parliament's agriculture advisory committee calling for the Conservative government to implement the buyout program put forward this spring by the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board.
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