Cwb wants farmer vote.

[monte]

I was reading a story where the cwb is promoting
farmer controlled.

Does the government have the power to end the
monopoly?

[parsley]

Yes it does

[FarmRanger]

Farmer control would imply the ability to say no.
Hopefully we will soon have that control.

<i>"Does the government have the power to end
the monopoly?"</i>
The question is do they have the willingness. So
far, so good.

[furrowtickler]

Great, give us a vote, no more old age pensioners - one tone/vote, no more dead land owners, clean this crap up - it will be fair this time. I am so sick of my wife's grandma getting a vote when she is sure that John D is still in power for the NDP, Elvis still lives and the moon landing just happened last week. And there are thousands like her who still get a f%^king vote!!!!!.

[TOM4CWB]

Cwb wants farmer vote

Fair enough... vote with truck.

[mbratrud]

Find myself agreeing with Tom. Make it voluntary and then farmers will vote with their trucks.

[RedRiverMB]

Repeal the CWB ACT, then you have no legal issues.
Parliament is supreme at the end of the day.

[bucket]

Oberg is a staunch socialist. He knows that the cwb can only be change through an act of parliament but still figures he is above the government.

Those assholes on the board along with the cwb alliance will spend a small fortune of farmers money taking this through the courts instead of trying to make the cwb more appealing to farmers.

I guess they don't know what the word compromise means.

[BreadWinner]

Sick of the vote, get me free from this CWB crap. Conservatives do it now then by next election all farmers will know that the CWB was a sham.

[parsley]

RedRiver, I agree. But in the interim, the Minister could for example, declare that CWB licensing duties be handed over to Canada Customs, and also order Customs to automatically approve all farmer export applications.

End of CWB Export Licensing Department. End of monopoly.

The CWB can throw a farmer in jail because he has no export license.
If the CWB won't give him the license, the CWB are in control of the monopoly.

With the CWB Act in place, and not yet repealed, the only piece of paper necessary for getting around the monopoly is for the export license to be issued. Trade and Commerce could do it. Or foreign Affairs. Or Customs.

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[tipsy]

Bucket your comment sums up the last 25-30 years of the cwb very nicely.
When the advisory board was created in the early to mid 80's, if there was any common sense with those directors or the directors that followed this issue would have gone away long ago.

[jensend]

so if you want greater right to self determination are you also willing to give up government subsidies to grain farmers?