Unheard Voices

Saskatchewan farmers have been continually ignored in Canada's institutional
landscape. Never has the situation been more evident as it is with the possibility of
Quebec separation. The Canadian governments ignorance of farmers' needs has caused a
cynical view of the political process in the eyes of farmers. One of the major sources of
the cynicism is that Canadian federal institutions are developed so that most political of the
clout is developed from the east. The eastern domination of the House of Commons, and
indirectly the Senate, means that Saskatchewan wheat farmers do not have…