Would you boycott plebiscite?

[wd9]

If there was one, might be tough not to. Not sure what i would do given the ramifications. CWB has always been so good at fear mongering and control of the peasants with 70 years of practice.

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

I understand the Chairman Oberg special survey ballots start being mailed out July 16th to 68,000 associated permit book folks.

With advertising it looks like it will cost somewhere around $.5M.

[charliep]

Should a farmer vote in the survey even though it will likely be irrelevant in the end? Risks of voting and not voting?

[charliep]

Suspect the new CWB model will require capital regardless of decisions made this fall. If the vote were willingness to put up dollars, how would you vote? If you wouldn't put up dollars why would you expect someone to (could be the taxpayer but also could be an investor/venture capitalist)?

[checking]

I receive surveys all the time in one form of communication, or another. Boycott is too harsh a word to use. I perfer ignore, unless they slip a Tim Horton's card in the mix. (hint-CWB!)

I want the boarders to go out as winners in their plebiscite. They need to feel good about something the CWB has done for them over the decades besides water boarding their returns.

Does anyone have the answer to what happens to those ship orders?

[Prairiefire]

The ships, Harper will pay for them to be put on the front lawns of the Parliament ,filled with dirt and have them growing tulips . A wonderfull example of the fantastic ship of state
we now have in Canada.

[ProFarmer]

Hey prairie fire if the CWB wanted the port of Churchill to succeed the should have brought ice breakers not some stupid lakers....

[Prairiefire]

Hell no, the Russians would be more than willing to just that. They have as I understand some pretty impressive ice breakers. And Churchill is not that far from Russia.

[newguy]

Do not trust results if I vote due to voters list and so on. If I do not vote CWB will get the results they are looking for. WHAT A WAIST OF MONEY.....The more the CWB says they can not compete in the real world the more need to terminate them.

[TOM4CWB]

Dear Charlie,

There are 6 in my family alone (wife and 4 children over 18 that voted May 2,2011) let alone other partners and joint venture participants in this specific farm operation.

If the CWB will not be fair... and allow a vote for each person affected... how on earth can this be a democratic vote that means anything?

And the CWB says we can get a ballot for those under age 18... and have the gardian vote FOR that person?

How on earth is that democratic?

Votes for the estates of dead people?

Votes for those banks and corporations that hold mortages on farm land!

What a total waste of money.

But... the 'temtation' ballot is being mailed out... many landlords will get multiple ballots... what a total scam.

[Prairiefire]

Tom,how many ballots for your outfit ?

[TOM4CWB]

Prairiefire,

Last election: 0

[TOM4CWB]

PERMIT BOOKS
Right of producer to issue of permit book
26(3) Not more than one permit book shall be issued in respect of land comprising any farm or group of farms operated as a unit.


If a landlord has 3 different 'actual producers that farm his land... he gets 3 ballots.

If a farm gets a permit book... and claims all the operators and partners EACH are an 'actual producer' then the landlords can have a seperate suffix in each permit book.

Obviously many many permit books exist that shouldn't... and the CWB is chicken to do anything about it... unless you are at cross purposes with the CWB.

So scads of landlords are given many multiple ballots. It is a running JOKE.

An honest operation 1 vote... which should be cast by the senior person... to be honourable.

The CWB voters list is corrupt and worthless for any democratic process.

[FarmRanger]

What if we mark the ballot with our grain acres,
as well as our support for freedom, and mail it to
our MP instead?
Shows the disapproval of our final payment $
being used on this waste of time and money.
Also gives our MPs some ammo to counter the
propaganda that will be used to fight against the
restoring of grain producer's property rights in the
designated area.

[TOM4CWB]

FarmRanger,

I agree. Mail it postage free to our MP... with the names of everyone involved in the farm that were disenfranchised by the CWB 'survey'!