Missing pool account funds

[Jeff Nielsen]

I guess I agree with Minister Ritz on his comments of the group of 8 stealing money from the pool accounts. Oberg feels differently yet the message is sounding more and more desperate. In another related article, it states the group of 8 will proceed with the court challenge on their own dollar if they have to. Anyone else hear that?



CWB chair responds to Minister's slanderous comments

November 11, 2011

Winnipeg - The chair of the CWB's farmer-controlled board of directors today issued the following statement in response to comments made yesterday by Minister Gerry Ritz, which were circulated to media by the Minister's director of communications.

"Irresponsible statements made yesterday by Minister Ritz, directly accusing me of 'stealing' farmers' money, are clearly slanderous and unworthy of a cabinet minister. I call on the Minister to retract those statements. Unless he does so, I am personally considering whether to take legal action. His accusation is a serious one.

"This is another glaring example of the bullying tactics that this government consistently employs. My sole motivation is to act in the best interests of the farmers of Western Canada -- of which I am one. The Minister has grossly twisted this by issuing a defamatory statement to serve his own political agenda.

"More important than my personal reputation is what the statements say about Minister Ritz and the Harper government's attitude towards Prairie farmers on the issue of the Canadian Wheat Board. They have shown nothing but contempt for farmers and their elected board members, including myself, which has made it exceedingly difficult to work collaboratively with government on a path forward. The Minister's heavy-handed rhetoric cannot disguise the fact that he is destroying the CWB against farmers' wishes, and he knows it.

"All we want is for farmers to be allowed to decide the future of the CWB, through a fair process that is set out by law. Instead, the government is bent on steamrolling over farmers' rights and the Parliamentary process in order to get its way. Now, the Minister is resorting to the worst sort of personal attacks. Canadians should be very alarmed that this is the way their government does business."

[highwayman]

The Crazy 8 are out of control with a complete diregard for the parlimentary process. The sooner this group of renegade directors are terminated then the sooner the industry can move forward. The forensic audit needs to take place as soon as legislation is passed. The scandals are yet to be reveiled and I'm sure that is what Oberg and company are worried about. Every penny that Comrade Oberg has taken from the pool accounts should be paid back in full with interest by him and his band of fools followed up by criminal charges and prosecution. Their ideological crusade with our money and lack of repect for all farmers is truly disgusting and offensive.

[lesm]

Comrade Olberg, You and your seven mental midgets are stealing my money. If you think I am slanderous, go ahead and sue me. I never asked you to buy ships or start an advertising campaign to promote yourself.

[malta]

I havn't heard they will proceed on their own. I would be very surprized. This group is good at spending other peoples money I doubt they would risk their own. Ritz has withdrawn the stealing word as it offended the great Oberg. Guess he should have used wasting, squandering, misappropriating. Oberg is still loose at tossing around the word bullying, maybe he needs to be threatened and sued. I hope the government of Canada hits the gang of 8 with substantial administrative penalties for ignoring the administrative directive.

[AllisWD45]

How about the contempt Oberg has for all farmers. He
is nothing but a potlicker of the worst kind not to
mention a common thief and a scoundrel
My question is why the holding back just fire him and
move on. Also not to worry about an audit as i am sure
by now there is nothing left to audit its probably all
destroyed by now

[wd9]

The board has some good writers. All the buzz words are there that certain groups on the internet hunger for and reiterate ten thousand times. Slick!

[blackpowder]

Perhaps Mr. Oberg has the right to a personal opinion and to say almost anything.
Maybe he also has the obligation to share how much money he projects to make on his familys investment in their private elevator and a short line that is in effect trying to become a new gen co-op grain company.
This is his business not ours. BUT he chairs the board on a large entity that affects us all. How can he be impartial?? Only the lawyers make money if we throw mud. The directors will be gone very soon. Let the hipocrites do and say whatever they want. It just proves a point.

[Kodiak]

What is the total amount these guys have spent pursuing their personal political and ideological agenda? $2 million? $3 million? $5 million?

There must be a way we can hold them personally accountable for spending farmer funds with such reckless disregard for those of us who have sales on the books in the CWB pool accounts? Is the Wheat Growers' lawsuit going to go after them personally?

[mbratrud]

Blackpowder. Is this fact that he owns comercial elevators and is a shareholder in a shortline? If so he is definatly in a conflict of interest situation and should be removed from the Boards immediatly.

[bucket]

As defined in a dictionary - the word steal:


steal   /stil/ Show Spelled [steel] Show IPA ,verb, stole, sto·len, steal·ing,noun verb (used with object) 1.to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.



I don't remember Allen Oberg phoning me and asking if he could use my money for a ****ing stupid ad campaign.

Allen Oberg, you are stealing my money. You arrogant self righteous spoiled communist brat.

[blackpowder]

What Mr. Allen Oberg personally owns in the facilities at Forestburg AB. or in the Battle River Railway is simply a question I have never heard asked.
What the extended Oberg family owns is their business.
Thankfully, who or what Oberg means to the rest of us will be moot in a few weeks.

[Jay-mo]

Question for Jeff.
You have been on the BOD, what is truly motivating Oberg and the others to act so irrational and desperate?
My inkling is that it is more then "noble principle". Is there some kind of "golden handshake" when you step on the board? Even a guy like Ken Ritter who was a pro-choice guy gets on the board and immediatly flip-flops just as wacko as Oberg.
To me it seems like these guys are afraid of getting exposed of even greater wrong-doing then we even realize now.

[bucket]

Look on the front of grain matters this month and that is part of your answer. Three guys huddled watching grain pour into a ship.

Its all easily controlled. The unions at the east and west coast, and riding the rails have more to do with this than western canadian farmers. We are their gravy train.

[Jeff Nielsen]

sorry Jay, hadn't been back to look at this link in a while. No there is no golden handshake for any of the directors once this is a done deal, no severance, nothing ! well least that I know of !
The ideology of these 8 can be called admirable yet in the fact that it was created by Act of Parliament, all along we knew it could be changed. Some held out a believe that Goodale's changes made the farmer directed board in higher status than Parliament, WRONG, yet a die hard believe in that has the crazy 8 running around grasping at any straws possible.
They've crossed the lines of good corporate governance, will they be called on it? doubtful, yet it might as you mention expose them to potential issues in the future.