CWB, Election Results

[TOM4CWB]

WD9;

I understand that only 151 of the late thousand or so ballots that were tracked by the election coordinator for the Federal Court of Canada were returned and counted.

Further;

In his T-2191-04 Affidavit and included in point [58] of the Federal Court judgement by Madame Justice MacTavish was this statement: "the affidavit of Peter Eckersley, filed on behalf of MNP, discloses that at least some of the ballots likely did not reach voters prior to the close of the election period.
[59]. This is arguably more than a ‘technical breach’, and in my view, constitutes a serious issue."

WD9, I have talked to personally many producers who did not get a ballot at all, or who got a ballot too late to vote, and submitted some of this evidence to the T2191-04 Hearing on the 20th of December.

[agstar77]

All this philosophical disussion is all well and good but the bottom line is that grain prices are too low to match cost of production. It really matters little who markets our grain . It would be a losing proposition no matter what. The only ones still receiving their costs are the integrated multinationals that don't really care about our costs or the price of the commodity. In other words we are losing site of the real problem, nobody cares whether farmers survive or not as long as the food keeps flowing to the grocery store and they can get it cheap. Nobody cares that if there was a large disaster such as a volcanic eruption or a nuclear accident, that would destroy production capacity in Europe or Asia. Evidence is available in the current problems in asia.