CWB PRO: Grain Prices Up.

[wd9]

Wilagro, despite the 50 thousand posts, we
wanted the the monopsony gone, not the
CWB.

Get it yet??? Unlikely. But thought
posting number 50,001 might help.

[jdepape]

Wilagro - I think we all recognize this money is for
much more than severance - and I sincerely doubt
anyone here would want to deny anyone's fairly
earned severance.

You have to admit that $349 million is an awful lot
of money and it does raise some eyebrows.

Maybe we should look at this the way Butch
Harder looked at the CWB (instead of permit book
holders, this time its Canadian taxpayers)

For each taxpayer in Canada it amounts to about
the cost of a cup of coffee. Ok, maybe a few cups
- but you get the idea.

Compared to what keeping the single desk would
have cost, it's pretty cheap.

Onward and upward.

[blackpowder]

Gee, what was the annual cost to taxpayer all the other years?? Nothing? BS

[highwayman]

It was estimated in 1947 that the first four years
alone, the monopoly cost Western Canadian grain
farmers $400 million. Fast forward 65 years and
the accumulated loss to farmers is staggering. If it
takes 350 million to wind down this blood sucking
useless organization, so be it. It will be the best
money any government has spent in 3
generations.

[furrowtickler]

yuup, as Dave Hester would shout

[sumdumguy]

These guys prob wont know what to do with all
that money. Now that they dont have the power
to confiscate peoples grain, they might have to
actually learn what its like to compete and
actually manage a company.

[gustgd]

What I wonder about is who owns the CWB? I
may be wrong but, it is still the Federal
govenment owning the entire lock stock and
barrel. So while it does seem like a massive
transfer from the Canadian taxpayers to the
CWB II. It is really just robbing Peter to
pay Paul.
As others have noted its important that this
come from taxpayers as it was the government
that had imposed the Monopoly on us. And we
are only 32 sleeps until market freedom,
which is the endzone.

[grassfarmer]

"Earlier this year Ritz unveiled a $25-million, five-
year program to give incentives to grain companies to
use the Port of Churchill to ship grain."

Strange no-one commented on this part. I thought it
was supposed to be all about free enterprise? I guess
subsidizing the large grain companies is considered
free enterprise? - now you are in the same boat as
the beef industry - constant pay outs to the big
packing companies. Gotta loves the illusion that is
"free enterprise".

[charliep]

Is Churchill a government policy issue or something
where there is a business case? So you believe that if
it is government policy to provide economic activity
to Churchill for strategic reasons, farmers should pick
up the tab?

[blackpowder]

Churchill was all politics. The $25 mil is a crap, cover, sniff, expense.