Contact our webmaster . By Barry Wilson Ottawa bureau Nick Parsons was sounding upbeat last week. After several days of lobbying in Ottawa, the British Columbia farmer and cross-country combine driver was hoping to get some national exposure on CBC television. After that, he would be pointing his combine, Prairie Belle, west, planning to drive a long winding route across the Prairies from Brandon to his Farmington, B.C., farm. It has to.
Government has to do something.
It has to see the danger of losing our farmers. Parsons said his trip west will be a chance to lift the morale of farmers he meets. I'm going to try to put some spirit into them as I drive out. However, behind that public optimism Parsons was talking privately about his disappointment at how little change his two cross-country trips have made. He feels he didn't really make much of a difference.