CWB Sold?

[Mjolnir]

What ties does ADM have with the current government bucket?

[bucket]

Harper- mulroney - adm.

I think mulroney is off the board but the this selling the wheat board started long ago. They just didn't have the majority.

Much like rescinding the OIC there is always some payback. Look at career politician baird to cp. What the **** would he know about business or railroads for that matter. He's been in Ottawa since he was 20.

[sumdumguy]

Pure payback Bucket. Pure and simple. They just move off the fence post to the silk cushion.

[Mjolnir]

I don't see it. It's no secret that Mulroney and Harper don't get along and if I'm not mistaken Mulroney hasn't been on the ADM board for quite some time.
I guess we'll see.

[Integrity_Farmer]

Mulroney was appointed to the ADM board in 1997. I believe his term ended a couple of years ago

When Dwayne Andreas of ADM appointed Mulroney he stated "having the right honorable Brain Mulroney a former Prime Minister on the board of directors will pay great dividends for ADM
Mulroney received over $600,000.00 annually in directors compensation.

Clearly ending the CWB single desk and farmers control of grain marketing in Canada was the big dividend Mulroney delivered for ADM and the trans national grain companies.

Ritz's plan to give the CWB assets to ADM would be icing on the cake.

Mulroney is back and appears regularly as a fund raiser for Conservative candidates such as Peter McKay. Mulroney also appeared at a fund raiser for Dean Del Mastro, legal fees at the tax payers expense of course.

Mulroney provided a big dividend for ADM.

[bucket]

And not to be outdid measner and company are going to deliver to Paul Martin on the same fashion. At farmers expense again. Either with cheap boats or good contracts moving grain.

We are pawns. And collateral damage for whoever needs their pound of flesh.

[iceman]

Roger Bucket

Pawns. the little ******* on the chessboard

Out

[iceman]

Roger Bucket

Pawns. the little ******* on the chessboard

Out

[stonepicker]

Oh!! Now mulroney ended the cwb, the story keeps getting better!! And bunge buys the cwb, but its mulroney's fault because he used to work for ADM! wat a tangled web some people weave!! The cwb did itself in. I know integrity and bucket and so on, the truth is hard to take, but move on and find something else to complain about.

[bucket]

For Christ's sake.

All I said was there is connections to adm and stated facts behind them.

You can't be that jaded by idealogy that you can't put 2 and 2 together and get 4.

Just like the OIC ending and baird getting appointed to cp. That's just backroom politics. To believe anything else is naive and insults Canadians intelligence.

[stonepicker]

Integrity made the comment not you bucket. re:cwb

[Integrity_Farmer]

Mulroney was not paid millions of dollars to sit on the Board of directors of ADM (for 13 years) for his expertise on grain marketing.

Mulroney maintains strong connections to the Conservative party and they have remained strong. Here is a news story where Mulroney attends a fundraiser for Peter McKay http://www.novanewsnow.com/News/Regional/2014-04-12/article-3687175/Former-PM-Brian-Mulroney-visits-Pictou-County-for-Peter-MacKay-fundraiser/1

The issue here is not about ADM being given the assets of the CWB although that may happen but Harper ending the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. US trans nationals have been trying to do this for decades. What do you think all the trade challenges the CWB fought were all about?

The ending of the CWB single desk transferred a multi billion dollar industry over to these US based trans national corporation. Farmers are now paying the price with low grain prices and a dysfunctional market.

Stephen Harper was formerly President of the National Citizens Coalition and he led the attack against the CWB while president. The National Citizens Coalitions donors are not public so we can assume that if ADM had millions to send Mulroney's way they also could have had money for Harper and the National Citizens Coalition.

As Mark Twain once said "tell me where a man gets his corn pone from and I will tell you what his pinions are".