Will you be able to vote in the next CWB election? - Interviews with Richard Phillips and Larry Hil

[gustgd]

Lets be realistic here.

It's crazy that we have to vote on our property, and that the only ballot question is monopoly or no?
These elections are NOT about board governance and how to properly run a government agency.
Another fact of life until the conservatives get a magority we are stuck with the system that's in place.
It's too good of a wedge issue for the Libs to give away. and basically the only difference in Ag policy between the Conservatives and Liberals.


Parsley thats why we fight over voting rules. It's all we have. and when someone with no economic stake gets a say on my farm that's where the system falls apart.

BTW theirs not enough farmers out in the country just too many people who call themselves farmers to maintain their capital gains exemptions.
As you said before bad policy leads to bad outcomes.

My advice to the Conservatives grow a pair and the day after the next Federal election make it a confidence motion. Give Western farmers marketing freedom.
My advice to the Liberals The day the election is called beat the Conservatives to the punch and change your position on the long gun registry and the Canadian Wheat Board. Appeal to moderates and I would bet their are 15 seats in the country that you might swing.
If you keep doing the same thing expect the same result of Conservative blue across the country.

[AdamSmith]

The basic point of this policy change is to change away from a permit book based ballot eligability, which clearly allowed way more people being classified as having a stake in the cwb when by any rational standard they really had none.

Is this the best way to go about it?

Very doubtful.

Is this a step in the right direction?

No.

Not when it comes to deciding the future of the monopoly and it's continued ability to force individuals into associations which they do not wish to belong to.

Not when it comes to the issue of treating one group of Canadians (Ontario,Maritimes) differently than another group of Canadians (designated area)

These issues are at the root of the problem that needs to be resolved.

I personly think it's at best, sheer folly and ignorance or at worst, a deliberate diversianary tactic with the aim to avoid having to deal with the real issue.

It's nothing more than debating what color of curtains you want to hang over the bars in your jail cell window.