Right to export or defiance of the law

[TOM4CWB]

Strawboss;

Funny you mention the CWB Directors position...

I ran in 1998, lost with 47% against Mr. Macklin...

Then I started farming in District 4 in 2000, so I could run against Mr. Ritter... And this has cost me a move to Killam, uprooting my family that has been in the Sherwood Park area since 1881...

I don't believe it would be fair to anyone for me to run in 2002 in district one again... even though my best chance at being elected would be in District 1...

So I give my life by helping others, other directors who need support, other farmers who need help dealing with the CWB PPO contracts...

I have a toll free number 1-866-866-4292 if you want to give me a call about marketing... maybe in a couple of weeks when we finish combining, or we can work things through on line...

Strawboss, if the CWB would truly follow the CWB Act, Part III, that only gives marketing authority over grain that is "offered" to them through Section 32 of the CWB Act...

Then there would not be any of this problem today...

Farmers in Vulcan Kindersley, Wowota, or Brandon all are as entitled to FREE export Licenses, just like the folks in Creston were when they no longer appreciated CWB marketing services.

Creston grain growers refused to offer their grain to the CWB, and then demanded free export licenses, while still in the "designated area".

British Columia's Government demanded free export licenses, and the CWB then gave the people their free export licenses, no questions asked.

This happened from 1983 till 1998, and then in 1998 the Feds temporarily removed Creston from the designated area... but with one CWB Board order, they can be back under CWB authority within the "designated area" today...

There is quite a history behind why I have dedicated my life to fixing this injustice... I will NEVER forget all the disgusting and unbelievable things that the feds has done to my family and myself... the CWB only being a part of the injustice that must be resolved...

If our next generation is to build their lives upon a solid foundation of respect and justice, it will cost my generation, at least as much as my fathers generation, to procure freedom for my childern

So I am simply trying to do my part, to make my province and country a better place, and to leave it in better shape when I die, than what it was like when I was born...

Hope this works for you Strawboss?

[AdamSmith]

Strawboss, I like to use analogies to illustrate my thoughts. When I read your posting I precieved from your comments that you didn't buy into the notion that these farmers were going to jail "for no good reason".

The exact details which have led up to their incarceration (sp?)in the near future are can be techically explained and justified within our laws but the point I was trying to make was that the laws that put these gentlmen in this position are a farce. And as such I used an example of an imaginary equally farcical law.

Because it is my opinion that any law that can prohibit a producer of a product that was produced in a free environment from marketing that same product in an equally free environment is Bad Law.

The CWB Act is in my opinion bad law.

These fellows are drawing attention to that fact with the hope that it will cause law to be rewritten or as parsley suggests be applied properly.

Sorry for the confusion.

[StrawBoss]

Tom4CWB thanks but no thanks for your offer to help me in marketing or CWB contracts, because I am very capable in managing my own affairs. The best teacher is one’s own mistakes.

We all have our ups and downs in marketing, and this year Mother Nature is a bigger problem than the CWB.

Don’t try to change Alberta and Canada to mush Tom, because it’s the best country in the world and nothing is or will ever be prefect so take a holiday and enjoy our good country.

Diplomacy is the Canadian way to solve problems.