A Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of Farmers may be moving from Federal Court to Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench.

Manitoba farmer Andrew Dennis filed a Statement of Claim in Manitoba seeking certification of a class action on behalf of all farmers who delivered wheat and barley to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 crop years.

Chairperson for the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board Stewart Wells says the original Class Action suit was started in February of 2012:

"Last year there were new developments in court proceedings in the Federal court," he said "One of which was an argument brought forward by G3, the company that inherited the farmer's assets, who claimed that the federal court was no longer the proper jurisdiction to hear the case because G3 was now a privately owned company."

"CWB, with the knowledge and blessing from the Federal government," he said. "Deliberately withheld money that should have come to farmers from both the 2010/11 and 2011/2012 crop year and that money was deliberately withheld to build a nest egg for some new entity, which we now know was just gifted to a private company."

The money in question totals around $145 million, which they say should have been paid to farmers as part of their final payment.