Stephen Harper continues to lie in speech and press. Recent claim that farmers were pardoned for Wheat Board violations is a complete fabrication

Stephen Harper continues to lie in speech and press. Recent claim that farmers were pardoned for Wheat Board violations is a complete fabrication - the charges were under the Customs Act, the Immigration Act and the Criminal Code.

"On August 1, 2012, the Prime Minister made a commitment to pardon some farmers who broke the Customs Act by refusing to present grain export licences to Canada Customs (now Canada Border Services). Several of them went to jail and a gullible and lazy media took their word they were sent there by the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). That the Prime Minister has just repeated this nonsense about the Wheat Board is contemptible.
The facts are straight forward. No farmer was ever charged under the Canadian Wheat Board Act which had its own penalty section. The Manitoba “poster-child” for the border-runners was found guilty of breaking section 94.1(f) of the Immigration Act, sections 11, 31, and 153(c) of the Customs Act, and section 145.3 of the Criminal Code all arising out of smuggling grain into the U.S. from Canada." - CWBA. -b

Read more: http://www.cwbafacts.ca/2012/08/myth-the-cwb-put-farmers-in-jail-for-selling-wheat/