Corruption

[parsley]

I listened to a program about corruption, and how insidious it is, and how it has permeated various parts of societies in various parts of the world.

People use the word glibly, but do we have corruption in agriculture? Is it transparent?

One RM caught a gambling employee stealing money from the tax accounts, but it was pretty much kept hush hush. Why?

For example, there were rampant rumours of the Sask Wheat Pool manipulating canola futures at the WCE. If it was true they paid a fine, all hush hush, (and that is a speculatively informed proposition), is that what you would consider corruption? Why was it not transparent?

Or, for example, one could speculatively ask, are there ag players with legislated power, mainly enriching themselves through hidden accounts?

For example: Have politicians themselves invested heavily in ag stock and push certain agendas?

Or: Is private information about your farming operations being sold by ex directors/executives?

Maybe the question should have been: If there is corruption, would farmers rather not know?


Afraid I'm not as rich as Al Gore, and don't even have enough cash to be defined as 'corrupt' Rocky, but bet your bed will be sitting on a stuffed base ten feet off the ground, lol, pars

[Hopperbin]

Or: Is private information about your farming operations being sold by ex directors/executives?

You mean like the MNP partner partnering with Earth One?

Maybe the question should have been: If there is corruption, would farmers rather not know?

Why wouldn't we want to know?

But I would think that the farmer that through in a number of bags of treated seed in his truck of canola and delivered it to Bunge in Humboldt must have had brain damage. Happened about 3 or 4 years ago.

[parsley]

The budget for MP's expenses is $500 Million per year.

MP's voted to disallow the Auditor General to examine their expenses.

Right.

If you go to the link below and look up your MP's address and tell him you want open transparent accounting of your tax dollars, maybe these elected donkeys will be a little more careful with your money.


http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers_house.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=2 &Sect=hoccur

Parsley

[parsley]

hopper, If you read commonsense's May 12 comment:


" would be shocked if all merchants buddies, you know the big boys, weren't in on it. you take all the big companies merchants and all there good buddies thats probably 100 guys at least that knew and were long that contract. the contract with zero open interest of course. and then 1 20 tonne contract traded up overnight so that works out to about 9 bushels each that each of these guys MUST have had (despite there being zero open interest). Most have already put payments on new million dollar houses all at the producers expense...... "

You'll note a teensy bit of skepticism?

So I wondered if farmers believe there is ongoing evidence of corruption, or if farmers dismiss it as hokey, or if farmers just hope it will go away if it is, in fact, evident and existant. Pars