Vance Drain is back as a director of the Egg Farmers of
Ontario marketing board.
He upset incumbent Hubert Schillings in a lively election
and annual meeting for Zone 8, which is the Kingston-Peterborough area and
includes Blackstock where Best Choice Eggs is located.
Svante Lind, owner of Best Choice, has filed a joint lawsuit
against the egg board, L.H. Gray and Sons Ltd. and Burnbrae Farms Ltd.,
alleging conspiracy to drive him out of the egg-grading business,
contraventions of Canada’s Competition Act and cheating on egg grading.
The defendants deny the allegations.
Until Jan. 12 t his year, Drain was a member of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission
which supervises the egg board.
Drain was appointed by his neighbour and friend, Leonna
Dombrowsky, when she was provincial agriculture minister. She was defeated in
last fall’s provincial election.
Schillings was a star member of the egg board, serving as
its representative to the national agency and featured in the board’s
highly-successful advertising campaign, Who Made Your Eggs Today?
