NFU in trouble in Ontario

[NickJ]

Seems the NFU aren't looking very likely to keep
their accreditation under stable funding in Ontario.
Interesting story in Ontario Farmer this week about
dissension in the ranks. Things like the Ontario
members electing their provincial president ("co-
ordinator") and the national headquarters deciding
they didn't like the members choice and appointing
their own choice instead, who wasn't even a
member of the provincial organization at the time.
Or the nationals leaving their buddy Ann Slater in
place as director #11 (on a board of 10) for months
after the provincial members voted her out.
Odd that a national organization depending on
Ontario for the majority of it's budget would flout
democratic principles so openly when dealing with
their own membership.

More here
http://agri007.blogspot.com/2011/09/ontario-
national-farmers-union-in.html

as well as in Ontario Farmer if you can get it.

[TOM4CWB]

NickJ

Looks like they drank the democratic waters from the CWB fountain... just once too often!

Sorry to hear injustice in any event... it is sad as farmers pay when we fight and reck our own credibility!

Hope you folks find a way to fix this!

Cheers!!!

[Kodiak]

Wouldn't it be a good thing if they lost their automatic funding? Sounds to me like they're as irrelevant in Ontario as they are in the West. Nobody pays any attention to them here other than a few media types who really don't understand or have any feel for the ag industry.