Goodbye Deanna Allen!

[per]

While good news for sure she paid the price for a perceived shift from the board. You know they will do anything to keep it fully intact and letting a controversial V.P. go was only to appease and take some acute pressure off. More pressure will be needed from above and below to put a chink in the boards armor.

[TOM4CWB]

Erick...

Doesn't this remind you of the classic... "Wizard of OZ"?

[chaffmeister]

Shooting the messenger - interesting approach.

"Farmer relations" may have been in Deanna's official title, but let's face it, farmers aren't pissed off at the CWB because of Deanna - yes, she was annoying but I certainly don't see the tide turning in favour of the CWB anytime soon simply because the Wicked Witch of the West is gone. (Note to Joe Dales - this is just a metaphor. I'm not REALLY calling anyone a witch.)

The real issue remains: CHOICE. Plus the fact that the CWB is a serious impediment to the whole barley sector moving forward. Booting Deanna off the payroll doesn't change any of this. From my perspective, the real positive in this is that it may be an indication of more changes to come.

Also - I don't believe for a minute that she was doing a good job for the CWB. Even though she says she was "dismissed without cause", I'd bet that the board say her as a liability - which means she was unsuccessful at keeping the munchkins (another metaphor) appeased as the CWB chalked up poor marketing performance and losing policy after losing policy.

Come to think of it, perhaps she was an asset to the choice campaign.

And if that's not "cause for dismissal" in the eyes of the "dark side" of the board (metaphor), I don't know what would be.

OK - I've changed my mind. I'm sorry to see her go.

[parsley]

She wasn't going a good job for the CWB overall, because in the final analyis, most farmers have turned their back on the single desk, and since they are not yet forced to grow wheat and barley, the CWB's demise is inevitable.

However, working there, she was doing a good job for the SINGLE-DESK advocates.

They had an identical mindset, and she was approved of, and liked by them, so what else mattered?


Neither will those same loyal singledeskers desert her now, at a time when she really needs them.

She will be cared about and cared for.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

As far as balance, respect, and consensus building... the keys to trust, integrity, and long term loyalty... this person was nothing less than a disaster.

It was not up to her to work for the liberals and defend the CWB Act.

Her job was to procure the long term viability and stability of the CWB Corporation. NOT Liberal/NDP Party politics...

The majority of commercial grain growers that grow the majority of the grain in the "designated area" (the 20% that grow 80% of the grain) were being bashed every chance she had to smash us.

Reality in the real world... the commercial growers must be properly served... or the CWB kills itself.