SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Canadian Wheat Board Act to allow voluntary participation in the Canadian Wheat Board's marketing system.

Several other provisions of that Act are also amended to modernize western Canada's grain handling and transportation system and to improve the accountability of all participants in that system.

The enactment also provides for a regular review of the operations of the Corporation by the Auditor General and the House of Commons.

Lastly, the enactment amends the Access to Information Act to add the name ``Canadian Wheat Board'' to Schedule I to that Act.