Accountability from my 'Marketing Department' head honcho

[charliep]

Will note that the board of director election is occurring (ballot deadline Friday). The B of D provides the strategic direction that will influence the direction and tone of communications from the CWB operations side. It is important for farmers in districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 to vote.

Also note the stretch of having the Chief Executive officer sitting on the B of D and having the deciding vote/influence. Perhaps this should be one of the first changes - CEO does not sit on the B of D and keeping their focus solely on the operations side.

[Burbert]

Ritz, Ritz, Ritz, likely he is the fellow who hired Mr. WHITE. Ritz really knows ag and is a true genius, that's why he is the Ag minister. His performance to date, proves he is probably one of the greatest Ag ministers, Kanada has ever had. Hardnosed, joker, that survived the cabinet cuts. Ritz will probably be Prime Minister one day, cause doin the right thing seems to come naturally for him.....

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket;

We have a very forgiving spirit... and are blessed with prosperity IN SPITE of CWB tactics!

"You can't keep good folks down!"

I believe Minister Ritz simply confirmed the request of the CWB BOD... and agreed with the selection of White for the position. AS IF Minister Ritz HAD ANY CHOICE.

"Conservatives are known for eating each others babies"... comes to mind here!

Beat up on Goodale for a while... he created this whole mess in the first place!

[Kodiak]

This is off topic, so while I agree with you Tom that Goodale created the mess, he is not in charge. Harper and Ritz are. I don't see them cleaning it up.

This government was elected to govern. Their election platform was marketing choice. They did not say marketing choice only if is easy. They brought the industry together in 2006 to help them move forward. The advice was 100% ignored.

They way they are bumbling and stumbling around its clear they have no plan to get it done. If they were serious, we'd see some real concrete action.

I'm afraid the farm vote is being taken for granted. In their mind, there is no upside to change. Reading between the lines, they have as much as told us that. The Liberals/NDP coaltion has them spooked.

Come to think of it, maybe Goodale is still in charge.......

[TOM4CWB]

Kodiak,

As long as we have a minority parliament... Goodale has the last laugh.

If grain growers don't elect a majority of 'choice' candidates for directors... WHY SHOULD MINISTER RITZ OR PM Harper risk their Conservative government on us?

NOW... phone some 'designated area' grain growing neighbours and get them to put their ballots in the mail box!

[cottonpicken]

Think before you type Tom.

If the government was defeated today by a non confidence vote over the wheat board the conservatives would be handed a majority government.

I bet 90% of canadians dont have a clue about the board.

They dont want it to change,it doesnt matter who you elect things will not change.

[stubblejumper]

If Tom and bucket disagree would they both be idiots?

[GrainBeetle]

LWEBER: so if none of the 15 bod's have the skills to run a 7 billion dollar company, who's fault is that? Your hero steve harper replaced 5 qualified business skilled bod's and replaced them with simpleton redneck farmers (and former SWP exec Bruce Johnson who took that company's stock from 26 bucks to penny stock.

I hear Parsley likes your 70's porno-moustache.

[TOM4CWB]

Grainbeetle,

How about the majority of the BOD... which are 'single desk' supporters... who believe "designated area' grain growers should wear the risk of the most volitile market in history.

Not a smart move... they knew years ago that this needed to change.

The pool... and lack of astute management... is costing us billions... this has very little to do with the 'single desk'...

Bad managment is bad management. Poor governence on top of awful management... is what Goodales legacy left us.

Goodales revenge... he knew the CWB had to change 5 years ago... and failed to force the needed changes.

Goodale created the monster that now is near impossible to control... and is bleeding our money profusely.

[furrowtickler]

Grain Bugg - carefull, I think pars could snap you in half. Play nice! BTW, nice typical CWB response to a question.

[parsley]

Beetle, Always nice to get home in time to drink in yet more of your hate juice.

btw, It wasn't Weber I asked about re the mousache, it was furrow, because someone pointed to a moustached guy in Regina, saying they thought it was furrow.

But I will say, when I met Weber at Barley Freedom Day last year for the first time, I liked him with a moustache. Which reminds me, I'll have to create a moustache in my book. When I do read some of the posts on AV, I conjure up pictures of what the person doing the posting might be like.

I think about one bug in particular, his anger black, driving tractor all afternoon, his folds encrusted with fat blood-gorged lice, most of them flattened by the weight of his flat cheeks.The squashed bloody mass sticks to the little hairs in the warm damp creases, and the smell rises slightly as he scratches, again and again, inbetween bites from his canned-meat sandwich.

When he goes to coffee row, the drift of his own festering follows him, and as the guys quietly empty out, his anger builds yet more. Not knowledgeable enough to discuss issues and events, his mood thunderstorms as he drops word bombs on the last ones finshing up their coffee.

Even the children don't want to parrot him. It's not surprsing that no one asks what he does at home, or what he does to those at home, but no one really wants to know; they feel they are much safer not knowing.

Pars

Hyperbole really helps fictional description, doesn't it?

[mustardman]

Parsley, some people say that you were the blond scandanavian transvestite in "Twisted Sister" is that true ?