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The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
7th July 2008
by Stewart Wells

CWB statements shows danger of prime minister


Following is the opinion of the writer, president of the National Farmers Union.

After being found guilty of breaking Canadian laws three times in the last 11 months, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed that any opposition to his plans to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board would be "walked over".


And this from my prime minister -- the person most responsible for safeguarding Canadian law and democracy.

I have come to believe Harper is dangerous. Why? Here are the stepping stones to that conclusion:

In June, for the third time in 11 months, a federal court ruled that his government willfully broken Canadian laws.

In October 2006, the PM erased the CWB's right to speak freely to the farmers it serves. Keep in mind that any communication with farmers is paid for by farmers, not taxpayers, and the Wheat Board is controlled by farmers.

Ruling on the gag order case, Federal Court Justice Robert T. Hughes was shocked by the government's actions, and said, in part, "It is entirely clear ... that the (government) directive (was) motivated principally to silencing the wheat board...".

And, as this piece is being written, Harper is confiscating money from farmers' CWB pool accounts to pay the severance package for the fired CEO Adrian Measner.

It was revealed in court documents tabled on June 16, 2008, that the government had planned to fire Measner at least four months prior to the actual firing. Firing Measner was a premeditated career assassination of a competent and highly respected CEO, and a firing so vitally important to the prime minister that it was discussed by the entire cabinet.

Throughout the attacks on the CWB, ignorance has been the trump card played by the prime minister. Appointing Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to act as point man on the CWB file is a shining example of rewarding ignorance. In a June 12 article in the Manitoba Co-operator, Allan Dawson listed seven statements made by Ritz about the CWB to the Senate's Standing Committee on Agriculture on June 3 of this year that turned out to be untrue.

Also, in federal court documents tabled in a case brought by the group Friends of the CWB against the government, the government admitted that it has done absolutely no analysis of the impact on farmers of removing the single-desk marketing advantage of the CWB. Celebrating and fostering ignorance is a totalitarian tactic that most Canadians believed only occurred in Third World countries.

Harper also condones breaking the Canadian Privacy Act. Starting in the fall of 2007, Ritz made repeated attempts to force the CWB to hand over personal and confidential information (including financial information) of farmers selling grain through the CWB.

Farmers and all Canadians have a choice. Harper's behaviour is dangerous to an open and democratic society. We can be intimidated and "walked over" by a PM who has repeatedly demonstrated that he has no respect for the law, free speech, or property rights -- a PM who uses career assassinations and ignorance as the currency of "choice".

Or we can stand up for our laws and our rights as Canadians, including the right to open and honest discussion and debate based on factual information -- the backbone of a democratic Canada and a civil society.

The choice is ours.

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This one is comic book material,boys. Sketch Wells riding a purple stud and thrusting a wheat wand forwards as he rides up the steps of Parliament shouting, "He's dangerous and I've come to save Western farmers."


Parsley

[bucket]

A. stewie wells could not feed the world.

B. Stewies wells has cost my farm alot of money.

C. STewie wells has a insider control of the cwb

D. Stewie wells should have to operate in the same environment as I have too with buybacks.

E. Stewie Wells really pisses me off with his dribble.

[Burbert]

A crooked, law breaking pm, is just what Kanadia needs, right now. Gosh just look a ways South, see what inept government, gets you. Recession, cause the oilys have stolen all the money and run away wit it, Git out of the way, of progress, or it will run over you, legal or illegal, who gives a r-ts but! Clutch grab, steal, gimmie, gimmie, mine, then I'll run and hide. To heck with the rest, just feather your own nest!

[wilagro]

Our PM also thinks that the price of oil is okay too...just a "normal" event with the "stock market".

[Kodiak]

My preference is to try and keep to discussions about commodity marketing. That’s what this forum is called - politics should really be on another thread. But this gets me a bit riled so I will wade in.

The Prime Minister is a politician. I expect when he said he was going to walk over people, who he meant were his political opponents in the next Federal election who will campaign on a platform maintaining the CWB’s monopoly. Politicians think about politics 24/7. Their political opponents are always on their mind, so that my take on the comment was that he was referring to Liberal and NDP candidates who dare to campaign on the other side. And who knows, with Goodale defending the monopoly and Dion self-destructing with his carbon tax scheme, that may be just what happens.

But how short memories are. Who were the politicians who actually did the shackling, handcuffing, and throwing of farmers in jail? For the heinous crime of selling their grain to a buyer willing to pay a good price.

I haven’t seen Harper walk over any farmers yet. All I’ve heard him say is he wants farmers to have a choice, which to me doesn’t seem like the actions of dictator using ‘jack-boots’ (I think it was Layton who used that line).

So lets talk about who really did some ‘walking over’.

We don’t need to wonder what Chrétien and Goodale did, or would do again. They have already ‘walked over’ us. Literally. With jackboots and batons. Guns ready.

Ralph Goodale, to satisfy his insatiable thirst for political power, used the boots. And he thought nothing of stomping on people with them. And when the laws didn’t suit him, he changed them. So he could keep stomping.

Doesn’t anybody remember? Apparently not the “media”.

[parsley]

bucket,I must say I"ve never studied him enough to take stock of his "dribble", but on your say so, maybe we oughta dress him in purple tights to match the purple stud.

His drivel drives me mad, though.

Where was the farmers' union when the Wheat Board was throwing farmers in jail? The NFU could care less about fellow farmers.

Where was the farmers Union when the Liberal Government was raiding farm homes? The NFU could care less about fellow farmers.


Where was the farmers Union when the Liberal Government was taking farmers to court, day after day? The NFU could care less about fellow farmers.


What does the NFU want? Putting more single-desk money in the pockets of their members.

That tells you what kind of a union you'd have standing behind you.

Parsley

[bucket]

A socialist is someone who likes to use other peoples money to get ahead.

A liberal just outright steals the money and then holds a public inquiry to tell everyone who stole it but we are getting it back.

A conservative uses his own money to get ahead and do good things for the community and willingly contributes to it. They always treated like they don't deserve their riches.

So naturally you get the socialist trying to get the conservatives mooney for his own thing and the liberals trying to steal it.

Stewie's both a liberal and a socialist. He wants the conservative way in regards to the buyback schemme he's got going while stealing our money by doing so.

Quite a guy. Like I said he's lost alot of money for the western canadian farmer while lining his pockets.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro, Burbert, and President Wells;

E V E R L O O K I N T H E
M I R R O R ???

Take a good long look tomorrow morning...

You know you need to 'control' my farm;

You know I am stupid... because I would like the opportunity to make my own decisions... without you looking over my shoulder... in the mirror... and giving me the... song!

The young folks being recked by your arrogance and greed... who you destroy each passing day... are on your record... not mine!

Freedom of Choice...

IS

Freedom to Choose...

AND EVEN

THE Good LORD respects your right...

To adopt the side that will loose!



Happy Trails!

[parsley]

QUOTE
The Leader-Post (Regina)
Fifth of July/08

Letter by Stewart Wells

Why he calls PM 'dangerous'



After being found guilty of breaking Canadian laws three times in the last 11 months, my prime minister vowed that any opposition to his plans to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board would be "walked over".

This from the prime minister -- the person most responsible for safeguarding Canadian law and democracy.

Why do I call StephenHarper "dangerous"? Here are the other stepping stones to that conclusion: - Ending farmers' right to free speech.

In October 2006, the PM erased the CWB's right to speak freely to the farmers it serves.

Remember that communication with farmers is paid for by farmers, not taxpayers, and that the CWB is controlled by farmers. Ruling on the gag order case, federal court justice Robert Hughes was shocked by the government's actions, and said, "It is entirely clear ... that the
(government) directive (was) motivated principally to silencing the wheat board...".

- Confiscating money from farmers.

As this is written, my PM is confiscating money (property) from farmers' CWB pool accounts to pay the severance package for fired Wheat Board CEO Adrian Measner.

- Premeditated career assassination.

It was revealed in court documents tabled June 16, 2008, that the PM planned the firing of Measner at least four months before the actual firing. This was premeditated career assassination of a competent and highly respected CEO, and a firing so vitally important to my PM that it was discussed by the entire cabinet.

- Rewarding ignorance.

Throughout attacks on the CWB, ignorance has been the trump card played by my PM. The shining example is the appointment of Gerry Ritz as point man on the CWB file. A June 12, 2008, article in The Manitoba Co-operator, headed "Ritz's colourful quotes not always factual," lists seven untrue statements about the CWB to the Senate's Standing Committee on Agriculture on June 3.

Also, in court documents tabled in the Friends of the CWB case against the government, the government admitted it has done absolutely no analysis of the impact on farmers of removing the single-desk marketing advantage of the CWB.

Celebrating and fostering ignorance is a totalitarian tactic most Canadians believed only occurred in Third World countries.

- Breaking the Privacy Act.

My PM condones breaking it. Starting in the fall of 2007, Ritz made repeated attempts to force the CWB to hand over personal and confidential information (including financial information) of farmers selling grain through the CWB.

Farmers and all Canadians have a choice. Harper's behaviour is dangerous to an open and democratic society. We can be intimidated and "walked over" by a PM who has repeatedly demonstrated no respect for the law, free speech, or property rights -- and uses career assassinations and ignorance as the currency of "choice". Or we can stand up for our laws and our rights, including the right to open and honest discussion based on factual information -- the backbone of a democratic Canada and a civil society. The choice is ours.

Stewart Wells

Wells is president of the National Farmers Union Swift Current
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Medication material?
arsley

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley...

Take away the CWB Act... and what does the CWB have?

Absolutely nothing!

Farmer controled? BULL!

What drugs is this guy on?

That Stewie claims he/the CWB can take my money... to spew this crap about 'free speach' on my behalf...

IS offensive and revolting to say the least!

What CWB Directors do on their own time... (when I am not forced to pay $500/day for their council) is time they can have all the 'free speach' they like... Harper/Conservatives NEVER restricted this opportunity or right!

[parsley]

"Take away the CWB Act... and what does the CWB have?"

1 A guy riding around in purple tights waving his lowcost-buyback license, claiming the PM is dangerous.

2. A couple of organizations who are so convinced the CWB will get them more money, they would chain themselves together, and lemming themselves over the cliff to vote communist.

3. They'd have David Orchard and Ralph Goodale forcefully chained together in the pasture, both wanting to be boss of the "Jump-start my Board Again" society, both crippled by the other, but co-operativley running Jump-Start as disjointed CEO's.


4. They'd have a certain accredited agent meowing on their doorstep, scrawny and beat-up and damned hungry, asking, "Where's my cream?"


Parsley

[parsley]

HOUSE OF COMMONS STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

NEWS RELEASE

Pre-budget consultations 2008
Ottawa, June 19, 2008 - The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance is planning to hold its public hearings on the 2008 pre-budget consultations when Parliament resumes in fall 2008.

The Committee hopes to hold public hearings in:
Ottawa
Vancouver October 1
Edmonton October 2
Yellowknife October 3
St-John's October 6
Moncton October 7
Lévis October 8
Regina October 20
Winnipeg October 21
Toronto October 22

If you wish to make an appearance before the Committee during its consultations, please advise us electronically by indicating the city of your choice no later than Thursday, 31 July 2008.

http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=244914

[parsley]

Won't be long before Chairman Mao Tze Hill will be propogandizing that a MAJORITY of DA farmers voted to keep barley soley under the CWB, without even choice.

That's a true Mao tze Hill! Let's give him until the 15th of August before he starts throwing a number out...say 80%, naw, better make it 87%, yup, can't you just hear him claiming, "87% of the barley voters were soley in favor of soley CWB monopolizationary selling"? I can.

He'll be advocating for you. Breathe it in, slowly. Repeat, "87% of barley voters wanted the Board." Relax.

Anyone for good odds?

Read em and bet:

QUOTE
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
2008.07.08


CWB directors have duty to advocate for farmers

After reading his letter, Gov't committed to bringing choice to barley growers (SP, June 30), it seemed to me Gerry Ritz, the minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, has not yet had the opportunity to fully familiarize himself with Justice Roger Hughes's ruling in the case of the so-called gag order that Ottawa had imposed on the board in October of 2006.

In his ruling, brought down on June 19, Justice Hughes declared, "(t)he minister argues that he has a duty to safeguard the funds of producers that may be at risk. I do not find such a duty set out directly or by reasonable implication to the act.

To the contrary, the provision of a board of directors, 10 of 15 of whom are elected by the producers, places the duty to safeguard the producers' interests with the board, not the minister."

Given Hughes's decision, it is hard to see how Ritz can continue to justify his government's attempt to "step in" and prevent the farmer-controlled board of directors from doing the job we've been elected to do.

That job includes advocating on behalf of the majority of Prairie farmers, even when the views we're advancing run contrary to government policy.

Larry Hill
Chair, CWB board of directors
Swift Current
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You have an advocater!
Why the hell doesn't somebody ask Hill why he is taking money out of the FARMERS' pooling accounts to pay for the Export Manufacturesd Feed Mill Export licenses, and to pay for probing the feed loads, and to pay for feed inspectors...and to pay to licensing all the multinationals' feed loads,..... all paid for by FARMERS.

Can't you just hear him say, "I want to save the big companies some money. I am advocating for farmers. If farmers pay, I am a good advocator."


Are you gonna buy it?

Parsley