The CWB first asked for the interim payments on Sept 7th. (Note, in the Aug 30th CWB Bulletin they advised they were asking).
They then pulled the request back and resubmitted on Sept 30th. We can only speculate as to why.
They could have let the first request go through and provided some early relief for farmers. They often request for multiple adjustments in any given year. But they didn’t. They pulled it back.
I'm told it typically takes 8 weeks to go through the Min of Ag, Minister of Finance and the Treasury Board - the CWB would know this.
It's currently week 5.
Oberg doesn't seem to know what's going on.
Korneychuk has the audacity to say in an interview that was posted online on Oct 30:
"The government hasn't done anything for two months on this request, so the wheat board is taking a lot of heat. Farmers think that we're not doing our job, and in actual fact it's the government that hasn't approved the request. We need to communicate what we're doing on behalf of farmers, both good and bad – it's not always going to be good."
Read it for yourself:
<a href=http://nipawinjournal.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2817311&auth=Melissa%20Mange lsen/Nipawin%20Journal>Korneychuk</a>
He says the govt hasn't done anything on this for two months - at the time he did the interview, it hadn't even been two months since the original request!
Is he lying or just doesn't know any better?
You can say anything you like about Ritz - but on this one it's Oberg and Korneychuk that are stonewalling farmers interests here.
They then pulled the request back and resubmitted on Sept 30th. We can only speculate as to why.
They could have let the first request go through and provided some early relief for farmers. They often request for multiple adjustments in any given year. But they didn’t. They pulled it back.
I'm told it typically takes 8 weeks to go through the Min of Ag, Minister of Finance and the Treasury Board - the CWB would know this.
It's currently week 5.
Oberg doesn't seem to know what's going on.
Korneychuk has the audacity to say in an interview that was posted online on Oct 30:
"The government hasn't done anything for two months on this request, so the wheat board is taking a lot of heat. Farmers think that we're not doing our job, and in actual fact it's the government that hasn't approved the request. We need to communicate what we're doing on behalf of farmers, both good and bad – it's not always going to be good."
Read it for yourself:
<a href=http://nipawinjournal.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2817311&auth=Melissa%20Mange lsen/Nipawin%20Journal>Korneychuk</a>
He says the govt hasn't done anything on this for two months - at the time he did the interview, it hadn't even been two months since the original request!
Is he lying or just doesn't know any better?
You can say anything you like about Ritz - but on this one it's Oberg and Korneychuk that are stonewalling farmers interests here.
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