The looming downfall of the Canadian Wheat Board could be a golden opportunity for an Aboriginal grain company.
Gordon Rauscher is the president of the First Nations Grain Commission.
Originally launched out of the Hobbema reserve in Alberta, the company recently set up an office in China hoping to market grain there.
Rauscher explains that will be much easier once restrictions on who his firm can buy its product from cease to be in effect when the CWB’s monopoly on wheat and barley sales ends.
He adds his group is currently in talks with a band in southern Saskatchewan about buying First Nations-grown grain from them in the future.