Court challenge

[LWeber]

http://www.fmc-law.com/People/McDougallJohnLorn.aspx?rw={7D2B2F36-F657-4CCC-9DF5-985ED104DE1C}

[parsley]

Rather than fall on the floor and moan,  women
were undaunted, and decided to  tackle the 'how
to get a ballot' 

Overwhelming numbers of men dragged out
precedents from every sly cat's litterbox including
the one that argued women were not people

Give the laws enough rope and they end up
looking like the idiots who write them. 

I actually have faith in the general public in that
they do not want to
Ever agian see the Gang of Eight throw Jim
Chatenay in jail for selling a bag of wheat to a  
4-h club. 

And in essence, that is ultimately what this
lawsuit is about: the Gang of Eight being able to
jail fellow farmers to maintain the present DA
single desk. 

Single deskers will have the CWB intact except
for the jail threat. 

Hardly an incentive for public or professional
support. 

I hope farmers can look to members of the AG
community for positive re-enforcement of their
marketing freedom goals as opposed to dreading
them  searching for every reason why  marketing
freedom is unattainable, as do the chatterclasses.
Parsley 

[Braveheart]

Has anyone heard who the judge is hearing the case? Personalities have much to do with judgements, policy, etc. Hope Rothstein has retired.

[malta]

Thanks for the undate Larry. the CWB lawyers are acting like our Alberta government. We're not really doing what we're doing and the Bill doesn't say what it says. I guess you can't blame the CWB lawyers for the arguement, judges fall for this sort of crap all the time.

[parsley]

For yr information:


Minister’s obligation
47.1 The Minister shall not cause to be
introduced in Parliament a bill that would exclude
any kind, type, class or grade of wheat or barley,
or wheat or barley produced in any area in
Canada, from the provisions of Part IV, either in
whole or in part, or generally, or for any period, or
that would extend the application of Part III or
Part IV or both Parts III and IV to any other grain,
unless
(a) the Minister has consulted with the board
about the exclusion or extension; and
(b) the producers of the grain have voted in
favour of the exclusion or extension, the voting
process having been determined by the Minister.
1998, c. 17, s. 25.

[LWeber]

http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/court-cour/ju/rothstein/index-eng.asp

[wd9]

It will get very interesting if this all goes to crap. There is probably enough emotion out there for some serious reactions.

[parsley]

Wd, have you revisited the 2006 Report of
Technical Task Force on Implementing Marketing
Choice for Wheat and Barley, chaired by Howard
Migie? Pars

[Kodiak]

The 2006 report put more meat on the bones of how we could get from where are are to a marketing choice world, which would include a voluntary CWB. No other report has come close.

But frankly, if the court case goes sideways, as good as the report was its way past the time to even consider it now.

New legistlation can be simple and one paragraph long. It would go something like this.....

"This Act hereby repeals the Canadian Wheat Board Act, and the affairs of the Canadian Wheat Board shall be immediately wound up subject to the Governor in Council's determination as to how its affairs and accounts shall be terminated and closed."

Its that simple.

[bduke]

Kodiak ...this simplicity would probably be the least
painful for all.

By far the most efficient.

Cheers.. Bill