If YOU were the CWB Minister, what would you do?

[TOM4CWB]

Northfarmer,

That SHOULD be where we are required to go as:

1.)Seed Growers already have this opportunity INSIDE the "Designated Area";

2.) Manufactured Feed Producers already have this opportunity INSIDE the "Designated Area";

3.) Millers/Maltsters and food processors can import wheat and barley/products and arbitrage DOWN grain prices INSIDE both from inside and out of the "Designated Area";

By NAFTA law... there is not supposed to be a difference between the price inside and outside of Canada... and the CDN GOv. has an obligation to implement this statute.

If the price is the same inside and outside the "designated area"... there is NO PECUNIARY BENEFIT.

The CWB is sucking/blowing wind (at the same time)... and they know it.

Amazing what lengths people will go to to preserve power... no matter what principals they must compromise to do so!

Rod Flaman Knows all these facts.

Ken Ritter knows all these facts.

Ian McCreay is smart enough to know all these facts.

It is time they took responsibility for their actions... and operated on principal for a change... and do voluntarily what the Minister/P.M. should not be required to do by force... THE RIGHT THING... Marketing Choice.

Ontario has done this voluntarily,

The Aussies have done this without WTO requirement... because monopoly "single desk" operations are simply misguided foolishness... unless you like depreciating your growers assets and keeping them less prosperous (in taking produce @ less than Fair Market Value) than those in neighbouring countries that have logical sane trade policy.

The CWB is still doing what it was set up to do in 1943... take our grain and sell it to those it favours... in the national interest. That is the purpose of Trade and Commerce Powers; the CWB has used, from day ONE.

[parsley]

The CWB has a Code of Conduct. The Directors are required to follow the CWB Act. However, the the C of C doesn't prescribe the punishmentthat would be meted out if conduct requirements are breeched.


III. DUTIES
Duties for corporate directors emanate from common law obligations and the provisions of the statute or instrument under which the company is incorporated. The following duties are applicable to directors and are in addition to any enactment or rule of law or equity relating to the duties of directors:


D. Other duties

Federal and provincial legislation extends liability to directors for various actions or omissions (e.g. environmental protection legislation). Directors should familiarize themselves with the relevant legislation applicable to the CWB and should satisfy themselves that appropriate safeguards are in place to ensure the corporation's compliance with that legislation.

So, uh, if Directors know they are in contravention, and you are the Minister, how would you punish them?

Picking beer bottles in the ditches along the highways within a five miles radius from Candle Lake?

Or perhaps mandadory listening to ALL of the official 2007 and 2008 communication releases to the media, presented by the CWB's official spokeswoman, Deanna Allen, twice daily for 30 days?

Parsley

[parsley]

Didn't have to report in writing at the border.

Then Sawatsky trucked into the usa

Goodale made an ammendment to the regulation

Exports were then required to report in writing...show their license at Customs.


Would somebody tell the Minster to undo that ammendment to the Regulation?

Then farmers don't have to report at the Canadian side any more

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

If I were Minister Ritz, I would pick on an area like Pedigreed seed/manufactured feed... that already is exempted from the pecuniary benefit.

It is generally understood that the CWB does not, and never has retrieved any "single desk" benefit from the sale of feed grain. The "law of substitution" prevents the CWB theory from possible application of extraction.

Feed and Seed could be opened up WITHOUT changing the actual CWB Act... with an Order in COuncil issue under NAFTA CWB Act exemptions.