This from a paper in Manitoba.
""The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is looking to recoup the money spent by the Canadian Wheat Board in its fight against Bill C-18.
"We have every intention to get farmers' money back, and if that money has to come from the Wheat Board's insurance company from the directors' liability insurance, that's good. If the insurance company says 'you guys knowingly broke the law, you can't do this,' well then we'll have to go after Oberg and the other directors to get the money back into the pool accounts," says Wheat Growers Chair Gerrid Gust.
He believes the case could end up affecting the eight former directors personally.
"I hope so. It's affected all of our farms personally. They've all taken director training. They all know the law, and they know the consequences of breaking the law," he says.
The lawsuit cites the 2006 Order-in-Council that prevents the CWB from advocating its single desk.
Gust says they're waiting for a final court decision on the government's appeal before moving forward with the lawsuit. The government is appealing a Federal Court ruling that said the Agriculture Minister breached the former CWB Act by introducing Bill C-18 without conducting a producer plebiscite.
"Our lawsuit is on hold until the Court of Appeal rules that Judge Campbell maybe overstepped his bounds. He's been overruled before," says Gust. "His is a very important opinion, but he does not have the final say on this." ""
1. Why wait, the cwb was not to use pool money to promote the cwb monopoly?
2. The cwb used the article in the old act to say there had to be a vote. Why not use the order that the government issued to quit using farmers money?
3. Why wait, it took the Italians close to 30 years to get that 5 million out of the cwb. The cwb has a pretty good record on hiding and delaying things to the point where everyone forgets? On a side note how is the Huyde case going???
""The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is looking to recoup the money spent by the Canadian Wheat Board in its fight against Bill C-18.
"We have every intention to get farmers' money back, and if that money has to come from the Wheat Board's insurance company from the directors' liability insurance, that's good. If the insurance company says 'you guys knowingly broke the law, you can't do this,' well then we'll have to go after Oberg and the other directors to get the money back into the pool accounts," says Wheat Growers Chair Gerrid Gust.
He believes the case could end up affecting the eight former directors personally.
"I hope so. It's affected all of our farms personally. They've all taken director training. They all know the law, and they know the consequences of breaking the law," he says.
The lawsuit cites the 2006 Order-in-Council that prevents the CWB from advocating its single desk.
Gust says they're waiting for a final court decision on the government's appeal before moving forward with the lawsuit. The government is appealing a Federal Court ruling that said the Agriculture Minister breached the former CWB Act by introducing Bill C-18 without conducting a producer plebiscite.
"Our lawsuit is on hold until the Court of Appeal rules that Judge Campbell maybe overstepped his bounds. He's been overruled before," says Gust. "His is a very important opinion, but he does not have the final say on this." ""
1. Why wait, the cwb was not to use pool money to promote the cwb monopoly?
2. The cwb used the article in the old act to say there had to be a vote. Why not use the order that the government issued to quit using farmers money?
3. Why wait, it took the Italians close to 30 years to get that 5 million out of the cwb. The cwb has a pretty good record on hiding and delaying things to the point where everyone forgets? On a side note how is the Huyde case going???
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