Marketing Boards: The Canadian Experience Revisited

Abstract

farmers to act jointly in the sale of their products to increase their bargaining power. The development, general nature, and objectives of Canadian agricultural marketing boards and the approaches taken in pursuit of these objectives were reviewed in this forum some ten years ago (Veeman 1987). Most of these features still apply and are not repeated here. However, the policy environment within which marketing boards operate has changed greatly in the intervening decade. During this time, there have been changes in society's expectations of the appropriate role of government intervention and an increasing concern to reduce levels of government expenditures. International commitment to the modification and restraint of national levels of support and protection for agriculture through the incorporation of agriculture in the last round of multilateral trade ne-