What happened in Wainwright last night, Tom?

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77:

This can be easily done. Samples of each load are retained now. Those samples can be retained and used to insure the exact intrinsic quality and properties are delivered to the shipment as was delivered by the farmer.

We are doing this directly now with the CWB on IP Special CWB programs. The CWB has samples from our farm long before delivery to an elevator... for complete analysis.

If the CWB owns specific grain, they are entitled to that exact grain, no questions asked.

[les]

Why do we need a License to sell our own grain??I dont need a licence to sell my cows or oats or canola or hay or do I need to go on?

[parsley]

Les, unfortunately, its the law of the land. The CWB Act requires ALL exporters to have a licence. It was put in in 1947. The government had a long term agreement to supply wheat to Britain after the war so they wanted to ensure they could get their hands on wheat at a price they would set, and independent of world market prices. The CWB lawyer developed a scheme. Basically, all exporters (and importers then) were required to have a licence that amounted to an export import tax (with the tax proceeds to go to the government). Thus the government was assured of wheat at "their" price. For example: They set the price in 1947 at $1.55/bus. If the world price went to $3.55, any exporter had to pay the difference to the government which would be $2.00. Basically it taxed away any incentive to export but did not prohibit exports.

However now the government no longer sets the price of wheat which is set by world market prices. There is no export tax to be paid and therefore all licences are at no cost but the legislation is still in effect and there fore all exporters must have a licence.

However, the CWB now uses this ancient taxing legislation to enforce a monopoly. Its very simple: they allow eastern grain out of the monopoly by granting the licences, and hold prairie farmers in a monopoly by denying licences. The Act does not mandate a monopoly on prairie farmers, its just done by the policy of the bureaucrats at Winnipeg and it is absolutely outrageous. Rod Flaman described it a a "hoax" untill his CWB greenback conversion, and no doubt a number of other individuals at the CWB also know they are perpetuating a fraud.

Incidently, any profits from the export/import taxing of the national licencing Part IV of the Act were to go to the government and the expenses (or losses in Part IV) were to be paid by the government. Now there are only expenses in Part IV (licencing) but the CWB, while claiming to be acting in the interests of prairie farmers charge us for what the Act states must be paid for by the government.

So that is why you must have a licence which you actually can't get yet must pay for the free licences of those who can get them.

Parliament came up with the notion to license your guns, too, Les.

Parsley