Judge Campbells ruling on the CWB

[FarmRanger]

[sddickson]

Good article, straight & forward view. Judges ruling was based on political grandstanding, not law. Full steam ahead conservatives, we're with ya all the way.

[parsley]

FarmRanger, he may not solitude it for posting,
but I submitted the following on Brian Lilley's
blog:

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is legislatively
responsible for LICENSING international and
export shipments of ALL wheat and barley from
and between all provinces in Canada. 

The CWB Is also responsible for MARKETING
wheat and barley for a specific area in Western
Canada that is geographically named the
Designated Area (DA) in legislation. 

Two legislated duties: one is a national licensing
duty and one is a regionional marketing duty . 

A few appointed directors, along with elected
soley-Western directors oversee both marketing
and licensing duties. 

Traditionally, the directors have granted licenses
to all applicants outside the DA western area. 

And they deny all licenses to farmers in the
Designated Area. 

And traditionally, there is  $0.00 cost for
applicants outside the West's DA, and thus no
cost. 

However, the CWB directors force all Western
farmers in the DA, (who are denied all export
permits), to entirely pay for all licensing costs
outside the DA, (which are all automatically
granted.)  

The cost of the entire CWB's  licensing
department is automatically debited from the DA's
pooling accounts in the West. 

Most of you have some notion of what a national
gun registry costs.  

The licensing department works with Canada
Customs to ensure permit compliance.

Customs' surveillance provided the CWB's ex-
minister Goodale   the information necessary to
jail Western farmers who exported without an
export permit for wheat and barley they grew.

Overnight, Goodale passed an Order in Council  
requiring DA farmers to 'report in writing'  at
Customs, their export permits to make it easier to
catch Western farmer-crooks selling their own
grain. 

Eastern farmers selling their own grain were
good farmers. 

Of course, all DA farmers were denied cwb
licenses, farmers were incarcerated, and Goodale
beamed in his victory with National Farmers'
Union's Nettie Weibe triumphantly demanding he
jail any farmers who protested, crossing the
border with wheat. 

Goodale reported to Parliament that the total cost
of a national export wheat and barley permit  
licensing program was merely the cost of a few
CWB personnel. 

No one examined his estimates closely enough. 

The CWB arbitrarily denied export and
interprovincial wheat and barley licenses to
Westerners, while  granting them to Easterners

Our constitution does not condone discriminatory
national licensing practices against one region.
Or one religious group. Or one race. 

The courts did. Justices did. Time after time,
courtcase after courtcase, courts  blinded
themselves to the CWB's  discriminatory licensing
practices. 

Licensing duties, gone awry, do irreparable harm. 

Imagine the ramifications if the elected Western
directors became retaliatory. Or unreasonable 

Western farmers could vote to deny export
permits to the entire Ontario Wheat Board.  They
could deny individual Quebec producers the
necessary  CWB export permits legally required
to export feed barley to France. They could  
legally deny export permits to an Ontario firm,
who has a contract to export wheat-straw fibre
board. 

When  ex-Minister Goodale legislated political
directorship  power to  elected Western
producers, (other provinces have no producer
voice  on the CWB's national licensing issues)  
during his tenure, whilst diluting the power of a
future Minister, it appears he simply did  not
understand the ramifications of his partisanship. 

Legislative partisanship leaves the 'left-outs'
vulnerable
The new CWB legislation does not require the
issuance of export permits.

 If you write a book, or paint a picture or you do
not require a Canadian export permit to sell it in
Greenland. 

For the first time in seventy years, when this
legislation passes, farmers in Canada will not
require an export permit to sell their wheat. 

That's  progress.  In spite of the courts. 

[blackpowder]

Amen Parsley.

[FarmRanger]

Indeed. Good post Parsley.

[bduke]

Parsley... thank you for the excellent post.

I can not imagine a more clear and concise explanation
of the CWB unfairness.

I hope all A-V'rs read it in its entirety.

Cheers... Bill

[tipsy]

bduke I hope most canadians read this.
pars well done and thanks.

[wilagro]

paesley: Are ALL of these statements TRUE?...ALWAYS?

"And they deny all licenses to farmers in the Designated Area.

And traditionally, there is $0.00 cost for applicants outside the West's DA, and thus no cost.

However, the CWB directors force all Western farmers in the DA, (who are denied all export permits), to entirely pay for all licensing costs outside the DA, (which are all automatically granted.)"

[wilagro]

Please replace the "paesley" in the previous posting with the word "parsley"...mine fingers they no wanta work right today.

[sumdumguy]

Willagro, figure it out! Did you ever try to get an
export permit in the DA? Or do you just believe
what you are told?