A Federal Court has set a timetable to gather documentation required to determine whether a class-action lawsuit will proceed against the federal government over the seizure and dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board in 2011.

Four farmer plaintiffs are making their case seeking to bring transparency over the process that saw millions of dollars of farmers' assets, along with tax-payer money, transferred to a Saudi Arabian government-operated holding company.  

Stewart Wells is with the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. He says the Conservative government is creating a double standard by vowing to compensate dairy farmer $4.3 billion over the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, while western Canadian farmers weren't fairly compensated following the demise of the CWB.

"There's no talk by the government about compensating prairie farmers, who according to the numbers published by the University of Saskatchewan's Richard Gray showed that Western Canadian farmers have already lost in the neighbourhood of $7 billion as a direct decision made by Mr. Harper and Mr. Ritz," said Wells.

Wells as that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz withheld the financial results for the 2012/13 crop year which made it impossible to follow the money as the single desk transformed from a farmer-run to a foreign-owned organization.