Minister Ritz on the CWB Interview on Legal Challenge

[charliep]

Will note the current board of directors has requested $425 million to transition the organization. Won't be this amount but would you trust the current board of dirctors to manage these funds in a way to transition the CWB/move the organization into its new world? Is there the capability around the table to provide strategic direction to this new organization?

[agstar77]

The prairie pools were these type of niche players. Where are they now?

[highwayman]

Agstump, what don't YOU understand? Who has said a voluntary pool wont work, the exact idiots that don't wish to relinquish power. If you choose to pool your grain, KNOCK YOURSELF OUT, just leave me the hell out. If you cant succeed without coveting and confiscating your neighbors grain, tuff shit, find another profession. Anyone who feels entitled to their neighbors personal property is delusional and certifiable. Maybe you and comrade OBERG can weave baskets together. The CWB communist kingdom is done and over. GET IT!

[chuckChuck]

Highwayman for all your ranting and raving did you forget your comrades in the Conservatives support soviet style supply management for dairy and poultry? Please tell me how you can opt out of the quota system? Where is your freedom to produce as much as you want in those systems? So all your bullshit about confiscation of property and complaints about goverment intervention in the business of farmers is just hot air.

[charliep]

The issue for the prairie pools was the need to get financing to modernize their primary grain handling system. It was also the need change focus from being a member based cooperative to a profit based company.

Back at you Agstar, where would the prairie pools be today if they didn't change structure/focus? In the context of what is going on today, where will the CWB be if they stay on their current path. Based on the CWB own information, 38 % of wheat permit book holders want change. 49 % of barley growers. CWB information. They want demonstration of benefit to their bottom lines - not politics of single desk.

[agstar77]

Actually it was the governments own handpicked committee that said it would not work.

[Burbert]

Go for it CWB! Did the Cracker and
Harpo et al, believe that the CWB would
roll over fer the politicos and give
themselves up? The CWB has a very, very
strong position and the Courts have
upheld the rule of law in the past.
If'n I was a CWB elected director, I'd
fight fer my job too! Good fer Mr.
Oberg! Down with the gestapo tactics of
Mr. RITZ.... After all this is Comedia
and we have the rule of law in this
great nation. Not the rule of the
Jungle...

[parsley]

Wrangling with the chuckchucks takes away time
that could be well spent on writing a letter to the
Saskatchewan minister of agriculture He needs
a fistful of letters from from choice farmers to
read from at meetings. Highwayman write one
will you and get four of your buds to do the
same. Works for you?Pars

[agstar77]

Gee, Ritz is real interested in the bottom line since there was no cost benefit to this legislation. The Pools might still be around if they had not adopted go big or go home.

[charliep]

So you think the pools would have survived their poor financial situation of the early 1990's with the small capacity wood elevator system? Where would the money have come from to upgrade elevators - cooperative members?

I will stick my neck and suggest staying on the course you suggest would have seen bankrupt cooperatives and more US based companies versus Canadian companies that can compete anywhere in the world.

Change doesn't come easy but sometimes it needs to happen. But I am treating the current as a business issue and not a political one.