OntarioLambProducerCaucus

A network of Ontario sheep farmers from all sectors of the industry.

[OntarioLambProducerCaucus @LambCaucus]

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Our chair Fred Baker will be speaking at Gray Bruce Farmer's week about OLPC's first year

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PDF copies of articles and documents posted on our Facebook page are now available at our website

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Please know we're here for you, we care about you, and you deserve to feel better.

[OntarioLambProducerCaucus @LambCaucus]

This certainly has been a strange year and many people, not just farmers, are struggling with their mental health under the huge weight of uncertainty and isolation, especially with the coming holiday season.

#OntSheep #OntAg #MentalHealth

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[Grey Bruce Farmers Week @GBFarmersWeek]

Don't miss #Virtual #Sheep Day of #GBFW21 - Jan 9. A recommendation from these gals can't be a BAAAAD thing!
#OntAg #CdnAg #VirtualEvent #Farm365 #AgProud #Agriculture @OntarioSheep @LambCaucus @OntarioLamb #AgMoreThanEver #farming #Farmers #Farm #lambs

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Thank You for your support of OLPC - https://t.co/p3AQXmBeH7

[OntarioLambProducerCaucus @LambCaucus]

Freedom of Information Request
Records 2 & 30

#OntSheep #OLPC #OSF #OFPMC

[OntarioLambProducerCaucus @LambCaucus]

We do not exist to try to destroy the OSF, some progressive changes maybe, but not destruction.

See attached letter from OLPC chair Fred Baker to OSF chair Marc Carere dated November 8, 2020

#OntSheep #OSF #OLPC

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Letter in reply to that from Valerie Gilvesy (Interim Chair OFPMC) from Fred Baker (Chair OLPC)
Dated February 2, 2020

#OLPC #OFPMC #OntSheep

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CSF did not respond to the letter from OFPMC as that organization has no jurisdiction over a federal entity.
It is the opinion of the Canadian Sheep Federation that the OFPMC was in the wrong to try and dictate which producer groups can and can not be members.

@Cansheep #OFPMC

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Letter from Valerie Gilvesy (Interim Chair OFPMC) to Allan Ribbink (Chair CSF) and Fred Baker (Chair OLPC)
Dated January 31, 2020

#OntSheep #CanSheep #OLPC #CSF #OFPMC

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"Sheep politics hits the desk of Ontario's Ombudsman; A letter has been sent acting on documents received through Freedom of Information requests"
Ian Cumming, Ontario Farmer, December 1 2020

#OntSheep #CanSheep #OLPC #OntFarmer

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Ian Cumming, a journalist with the Ontario Farmer, discovered some of the facts during his research into other matters and published the following article.

#OntSheep #CanSheep #OLPC #OntFarmer

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In early Feb. 2020, the OLPC & the CSF received the following sternly worded letter from the Farm Products Marketing Commission indicating that in their opinion, the OLPC should not exist and could not represent Ontario lamb producers as a member of the Canadian Sheep Federation

[OntarioLambProducerCaucus @LambCaucus]

In hundreds of pages of correspondence between OSF and the FPMC, we discovered a trove of disturbing information that calls into question the integrity of the OSF Executive Committee as well as questions of whether the FPMC is exercising proper oversight of OSF.