Election Blunders

[seabass]

Anyone who got there MNP election ballots get the wrong one? I live in District 9 and received District 5 candidates ballots. Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

[parsley]

I went on the cwbelection webpage.

With these kind of mistakes, Meyers Norris Penny LLP should not have the contract for another CWB election, should they?

MNP screwed up last election if you will recall when a Manitoba encumbent erected Wheat Board signage. Young Penner ran against the encumbent, but the playing field wasn't level for a young guy who isn't bbanking CWB per deims.

I despise that kind of organizational strategy.

MNP lacks competentence. Wonder if farmers call them and ask how much farmer money they are getting paid to run the CWB election. Was it tendered?


http://www.cwbelection.com/

For more information, please contact:

Ian Craven

Election Coordinator

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W: cwbelection.com

[wd40]

You're C&P
"Wayne Easter: Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak on Bill C-47,
Speaking in my role as agriculture critic, I can tell this House that the budget was one of the biggest disappointments ever for the farm community....Sadly, the government has become known as a borrow and spend government, with both the debt and the deficit out of control."

What a crock

He's forgoten that his script comes from the PC's when the tables were reversed and the Lib were in control.

[littledoggie]

We found ourselves in an overpayment position after accepting $60,000 in 2004 under the CAIS Equity Loss program. Not once was the word "loan" ever used when they sold us on this money. Consequently over the next several years we had to pay back that "loan" with any CAIS payments we were entitled to. We also had to borrow $50,000 from the bank at the beginning of BSE just to keep going. We figured that we lost about $120,000 in the first 2 years of BSE alone on reduced cattle prices. Do the programs work for primary producers? I know they sure worked for the feeders and the packers. The government foolishly believed that the money would trickle down to the primary producer. It probably aided in keeping the whole complex going, but at a huge cost to the primary producer.
I have thought many times of quitting the CAIS/Agri-stability program - it's a lot of work for nothing but frustration in return. But then, if you're not doing it you might miss out on any future payments.

[JohnGalt]

You can't expect an organization that thrives on incompetence to punish someone else for their mistakes.

The CWB will continue to have MNP as their "fair and unpartial" election people.

Maybe the extra 150 ballots sent out would have let the pro-CWB candidate win. Maybe they got worried about getting caught.


What I wonder about is how can you actually cancel a supposedly annonomous ballot? Should there not have to be an entirely new (and costly) set of ballots mailed out?

MNP should have to eat any costs associated with this error. I doubt that will happen.

[parsley]

Where is the 'explanation' from the CWB or from the elected directors?

[grassfarmer]

Just scanned your post quickly Kato and assume you are talking about the APP program and not CAIS/Agristability.
We have used the APP for 3 years now and are writing cheques just now to repay the first 2 years rather than use the latest extension to next spring. Good program in my opinion, no problem paying it back or I wouldn't have borrowed it in the first place. That's personal financial management not a Government program fault though. If you get into open ended debt arrangements without an exit plan that's your choice - just the same as if you borrow from a bank or a loan shark.

[seabass]

Just talked to a CWB election person and she said they have reissued the proper ballots to the people that have been sent the wrong ones. Not exactly sure how they new which people got the wrong ones but she sure knew we were one of them.

[FarmRanger]

Got my district 5 ballot yesterday too. I'd have to drive 300 miles from the farm to get to district 5.

<b>Question for Agrivillers who would know:</b> How likely is district 5 to elect a candidate who is for an open market?

Don't want to sound paranoid, but if the district you should be in might go either way, could District 5 is the default district they put you in?

Just asking.

[FarmRanger]

oops, that should be:
...could District 5 be the default district they put you in?