Vanclief won't make Martin cabinet?

Agriculture Canada staff expect Paul Martin to replace Minister of Agriculture Lyle Vanclief in the revised cabinet. A source at Agriculture Canada said the civil service employees don’t expect to be taking orders from Vanclief in the new year.

Under Vanclief’s leadership, farmers were no longer the primary client in a department controlled by civil servants. The consumer became the main concern, Farmers Forum sources said. The consumer pays for the research and he who pays the piper should call the tune, the thinking goes.

Before his rise in the federal government, Vanclief was a crop farmer in Picton, Prince Edward County.